Word of the day: ekphrasis
I recall sitting in an NEH seminar and being told that if one wanted to befuddle colleagues, all that was necessary was to speak the word ekphrasis. Well, maybe. I’m not so sure.
A Gris collage
At The New York Times, Jason Farago offers a close reading of Juan Gris’s Still Life: The Table.
A film about Joe Brainard
A short film about the artist and writer Joe Brainard.
“Bob & Timmy & Lassie”
Fresca, l’astronave , has made a photo-collage to go with my story “The Poet.”
Gui, c’est toi?
A stroller in an Adolf Dehn painting, looking a lot like Guillaume Apollinaire.
“Another slim volume”
A Glen Baxter drawing.
WCW for young readers
“A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008), is the work of a writer and an artist with a genuine feeling for Williams’s work.”
John Ashberys
John Ashbery sits next a Fairfield Porter painting he sat for.
“Painters and Poets”
Three slideshows for “Tibor de Nagy Painters and Poets.”
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Geoffrey Hill on difficulty
On the difficulty of life and art
Trompe l'oeil
3703 students: From the wordsmith.org word-a-day service: trompe l'oeil (tromp lye) noun 1. A style of painting in which objects are render...