Elliott Hunter, Grasshopper, 1967, collection of Lawrence (Dan) D'Antignac and The Woodshop Gallery, on view at the Smart Museum of Art through December 30, 2018.
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- Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Elliott Hunter Yesterday, at the Smart Museum, “The Time is Now!” I was immediately struck by this painting: A large square, four feet by four feet. Each inch compels. The painter is Elliott Hunter. It was made in 1967, and is called Grasshopper . Twice, recently, I have seen grasshoppers on the pavement. Once along the curved inlet behind the bus stop ... more»
- Friday, August 17, 2018 Folding Screen I had a thought last week at the Metropolitan Museum's Poetry of Nature exhibit of Edo Paintings. A most basic, untutored thought, but of interest to me. Standing before a folding screen, on which was mounted Cranes and Pines, a work in ink and light color by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716). That a screen is a stylized geometry of the effects of landscape. The ... more»
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- Thursday, December 13, 2018 Bomb Magazine Interview with Joshua Rivkin We recently hosted Joshua Rivkin here in the creative writing program's New Voices in Nonfiction Series . I had the chance to spend the afternoon with Rivkin in the Twombly sculpture room at the Art Institute of Chicago and published the interview we did in Bomb Magazine . Our conversation is about having long relationships with artists and museums, about traveling and tracking ... more»
- Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Berthe Morisot in Apollo Magazine A piece I wrote about the revelatory Berthe Morisot exhibition, currently in Philadelphia, then traveling to Dallas and Paris, was the cover of the September 2018 issue of Apollo Magazine. The piece is about Morisot's artistic project, and the ways taking it seriously redefines Impressionism. It can be read online here. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/berthe-morisot-comes-into-her-own/ ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at Poussin This essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review . ... more»