Posts Tagged ‘The Writer’s Brush’
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 MoreJules Feiffer: In Memoriam
Brilliant and creative to the last of his 95 years (January 26, 1929-January 17, 2025), author of 35-plus books, plays, and screenplays, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award, all of Feiffer’s work was infused with social and political satire of the highest order. In this interview he acknowledges that his goal was…
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 MoreZELDA’S LEGACY
On March 10, 1948, at 48, Zelda Fitzgerald, widow of F. Scott, died in a fire in a locked hospital room during the last of her many confinements for chronic mental illness. Variously diagnosed as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder, at least one biographer asserts that a major objective of her treatment was to restore her…
Read MoreMY CONTRIBUTION TO THE LATEST INTERFACES ISSUE
Voilá, the latest issue of INTERFACES, internationally renowned journal of text and image and my contribution to it–an extended essay on writer and conceptual artist Roberta Allen along with an on-camera interview with her in 2021. Note this is not the brief commentary previously posted but an expanded discussion of the prolific author Allen and her…
Read MoreRoberta Allen: “Language is the bridge…”
“Language is the bridge…” Roberta Allen began making and exhibiting her conceptual art more than a half century ago, before she came to author eight books and more than 200 works of short fiction. Indeed, as she explains in this 2021 interview, her earliest writing was about her art. Allen had her first solo exhibition…
Read MoreFernando del Paso: “I dream that I paint, and I paint the dream.”
With the 2015 award of the Cervantes Prize, Fernando del Paso’s place among the greatest of Spanish literary figures was cemented. Acclaimed as both novelist and essayist, the Surrealist-influenced del Paso was also an internationally exhibited artist whose work, both in ink and paint, offers precisely rendered, dream-like images that juxtapose and merge the real and the fantastic.
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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