WHEN Abstract Expressionism exploded in the 1950s, Edward Melcarth was painting and sculpting construction workers, junkies, and hustlers in an epic style, highly influenced by Renaissance painters like Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto. This link between the past and present was a significant feature of his artistic vision, one that still has a striking effect on the viewer to this day.
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McLane was born in 1944 in Macon, Georgia, but grew up in Wagener, South Carolina, a small town in horsey Aiken County. He was an English major and a member of the Furman Theater Guild. In the decade after he left the college, he forged a minor but significant career for himself in the theater—no small accomplishment, as any number of former stars of the university stage can attest.
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Tim Miller interviews author Steven Reigns.
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THIS IS the unspoken story of the extraordinary relationship between John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), the preeminent portrait artist of high society of his era, and his African-American muse, Thomas McKeller.
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MoreSINCE THE TIME of Stonewall, the LGBT+ community has changed in ways that our queer antecedents could not have imagined. We now have multiple resources at our fingertips for figuring out our queer identities and for connecting with a network of people, or even a community, with whom we share a sexual identity. One group that has come out and come together in the age of the Internet is the asexual community.
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