The Curator

A Message to our Readers

Chris Davidson

1 min read

The Kingfisher

after Vincent Van Gogh

Aaron Magloire

1 min read

MOSS

Kaitlin Ruiz

1 min read

Simeon in the Temple

after a panting in the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi, Orvieto

Paul Willis

1 min read

THINKING OF WOUWERMAN’S THE WHITE HORSE*

*Phillips Wouwerman, 1650-1660?, (Dutch)

Martina Reisz Newberry

1 min read

Woodman’s Shack

—Deceased: Wilby Jenks. Questioned: Homer Cregg & Carl Stebbiens, her roommates. Reported Thursday, February 8, 1945

Jessica Purdy

1 min read

Saint Denis

Jane Zwart

1 min read

At the American Visionary Art Museum: Black Cat

from Beauty and the Beasts by Margaret Munz-Losch

Marjorie Maddox

1 min read

Heavenly Potato

Here in the dreariest, the most God-forsaken place on this beautiful earth, the chatter is about cooking.

Lola Mozes

2 min read

Holy Unction with Suicidal Ideation

7th Edition Essential Oil Pocket Reference (2016, Softcover)

Marci Rae Johnson

1 min read

What They Keep for Themselves

Saint-Trophime, Arles

Susanna Lang

1 min read

My Enchanted Big Red Ballpoints

Stephanie Golden

5 min read

sfumato

after da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks

Kathleen Hellen

1 min read

The Rose

Sophie Golub

5 min read

Love & Inebriation

The spiritual person is drunk with the wine of love. -Olivier Clément

Marci Rae Johnson

1 min read

Sam Patch

“If God can make cataracts, men can certainly jump over them.”

James Gallant

7 min read

Portrait of Anna Hyatt Huntington

in response to Marion Boyd Allen’s “Portrait of Anna Vaughn Hyatt” at the Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA

Rebecca D. Martin

1 min read

TIME, WEIRDNESS

Barbara Berman

11 min read

Paperweight

A poem by James Owens

James Owens

1 min read

PAGES

On Lea Feinstein’s Text-Based Paintings

Nan Cohen

9 min read

The Space Between My Favorite Season and My Seasonal Depression

A poem by Isabella J Mansfield

Isabella J. Mansfield

2 min read

Art for the Sky

A poem by Lisa Creech Bledsoe

Lisa Creech Bledsoe

1 min read

Plaster Cherubim

Ryan Diaz

6 min read

Jesus Shops for Groceries to Contribute to the Writer’s Retreat

Marci Rae Johnson

1 min read

Graduation

Mike Wilson

8 min read

Finding the Center

A poem by Peggy Heitmann

Peggy Heitmann

1 min read

No More Salingers

What do we mean by the "voice of a generation"?

Michael P. Mazenko

8 min read

If you drive fast enough

Ren Pike

1 min read

Home is Nowhere and Everywhere At Once

Spaces that are most familiar to me are the ones others consider transient. Airports, taxis, waiting rooms, rest stops: places we enter with the sole purpose of leaving are places I feel most at ease in.

Sindhu Shivaprasad

8 min read

The Rootless Cosmopolitan

In the 1940s, Jewish cultural figures were connoisseurs and patriots of local art, but they were deprived of the right to represent it

Alex Gordon

16 min read

Pyrotechnics

A poem by Laurinda Lind

Laurinda Lind

1 min read

A Late Style for the End of Days

Late Style so effectively captures the spirit and aesthetic of a smoky, bygone era, one may accuse it of being escapist, an aloof exercise in “art for art’s sake.

Danny Anderson

11 min read

Nest Robbers

John James Audubon, Plate 102, Birds of America

Dana Sonnenschein

1 min read

Into the Fundamentals: On The Seagram Murals

That, however, is the power of The Seagram Murals: to give the viewer a glimpse of how small and fragile they are; to drive home the fact of one’s placeness.

James Fleming

8 min read

A Saint's Night

Lee Potts

1 min read

Encountering the Shiva Nataraja

The Nataraja addresses us in a way that’s immediate; its fluency transcends the limiting specificities of language, culture, and religion.

Chris Arthur

7 min read

Milton Avery, Tree and Mountain

Faith Paulsen

1 min read

Vernal Falls

I am used to eliding or implying connections, but am finding this moment messy.

Lisa Rosenberg

6 min read

Reward

based on “Lotus” by Yun Suknam (2003)

Serena Agusto-Cox

1 min read

Contained Chaos: Layers of Meaning in Jackson’s Pollock’s Number 9

Kathryn Sadakierski

8 min read

Blending

Belonging, it turns out, requires more than space, school supplies and photos.

Chapin Cimino

3 min read

My Throat

A poem by Nadia Colburn

Nadia Colburn

1 min read

The Comic Saul

Saul’s gesture reminds me of a Kramer pratfall, where loss of control over the body is theatricalized.

Arthur Aghajanian

9 min read

By The Lake

A poem by Holly Day

Holly Day

1 min read

1922: The Year of Joyce and Proust

No one wants to read a book because it’s important. You have to anticipate some fresh and particular pleasure.

Alex Miller Jr.

8 min read

Abandonment

—after John Vanderlyn, “Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos” (1809-1814)

Anne Myles

1 min read

The Good Shepherd

stone, ca. AD 300-400, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Athens

Susanna Lang

1 min read

Landscapes of Longing: Pilgrimage and Desire in Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land

“You’ve been longing again for what you have.” - Carl Dennis, View of Delft

Hallie Waugh

14 min read

Math Problem

A poem by Jessica Barksdale

Jessica Barksdale

1 min read

Room of Memories

Home from the poetry workshop, I take note of my own artifacts

Sandra Giedeman

3 min read

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