“Death’s still the secret of life, the garden reminds us./Or vice-versa. It’s complicated.”
-- Charles Wright, "Disjecta Membra"
Wildness is fading from the n...
You might think that nothing could be needed less than another contribution to the debate on the endless crisis in criticism. Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique, however, argues compellingly that our critical habits have unwittingly become trapped within a range so pinched we can barely turn our heads to see that there might be other possibilities available. She offers a nuanced description of the state of theory-heavy academic literary critique, and some proposals for how we might finally start to move beyond it....
What does it mean for an app, a video game, or a YouTube supercut to be artwork? As with photography and video, new ways to make and consume images always shift...
Faith McClure, the fire becomes the mirror
Nymphs and Shepherds Come Away at {Poem88}
Nymphs and Shepherds Come Away: Ten Women Artists Respond to Se...
AnnieLaurie Erickson: 3028'28.67"N,91 12'36.19"W (Port Allen), archival pigment print taken with after image camera
Overcast skies, gathering storm clouds, le...
Penelope Umbrico: Sunset Portraits from Flickr Sunsets, 2011. Photographs, 4 x 6 in. each. Courtesy of the artist.
Forgetting has its own shades and textures....
Elyse Defoor: Exposures 5 & 6, charcoal, graphite, marker and tape.
The premise of curator Karen Lowe’s The Drawing Experiment is refreshingly straightfor...
