Posts Tagged ‘language and art’
DRAWING TRUTH TO POWER: MY LATEST INTERFACES ESSAY
In the current copy of the now Open Edition INTERFACES, I write about the brilliant, popular originator of what Der Spiegel magazine dubbed “art-journalism,” Molly Crabapple, and using multiple examples, demonstrate how combining image and text enables her to convey truths with an immediacy and accessibility that neither can do alone. You will learn how…
Read MoreThe Chip on Molly Crabapple’s Shoulder
In this July 2024 interview, the brilliant, popular originator of what Der Spiegel magazine dubbed “art-journalism,” Molly Crabapple explained that if she carried a chip on her shoulder it was not anger at some past injustice she suffered, but for other people. Seeking to give a voice to victimized, stigmatized, and oppressed, Crabapple, has sympathetically…
Read MoreMy latest INTERFACES essay–a new art form
Voilá, the latest issue of INTERFACES, internationally renowned journal of text and image and my contribution to it–an extended essay on Frederic Tuten along with an on-camera interview with him. Note this is not the brief commentary previously posted but an expanded discussion of the prolific author Tuten, and his art, including a first-of-its-kind art in…
Read MoreFREDERIC TUTEN FOUND A NEW JOY
“At this time of my life–someone would say, the winter of my life, although I don’t feel cold,” Frederic Tuten, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and art critic, tells of finding a new joy in painting. “Practically no day passes where I’m not either writing and painting or painting and writing, whichever comes first in…
Read MoreHow Peter Sacks Joined the Greats
“Paint seems more embedded in the cosmos than language.” The Poet Picked Up a Paintbrush You are about to witness a historic moment. A little more than twenty years ago, Peter Sacks, a successful poet and Harvard professor, decided to pick up a paintbrush for the first time. Today, hailed internationally, his work is…
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