November-December 2015
THERE’S A UNIQUE POWER in the raw, organic evidence of an artist at work—unfinished canvases in a paint-spattered workspace, rough studies and drawings, and even the artist’s personal effects. One thinks of Francis Bacon’s famously chaotic London studio, meticulously catalogued and transported, piece by messy piece, to a Dublin museum after Bacon’s death. That quality of the artist at work comes through in Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks …
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The North Haven Journal illuminates a more intimate story still, Bishop’s relationship with the much younger Alice Methfessel, an administrator at Harvard University, where Bishop had begun teaching in 1970.
MoreWarhol by the Book Williams College Museum of Art March 7 to August 16, 2015 AN EXHIBITION that ran this past summer at the Williams College Museum of…More
Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution by Jo B. Paoletti Indiana. 216 pages, $25. THE AUTHOR of Sex and Unisex begins by quoting Republican candidate…More