I grew up with almost no music at all. Music, after all, is not words and only words counted in that world.
Blog Posts on Art
Angel Sallie
No longer subject to colonization and condescension, have we found our landscapes, at last?
Camille Claudel Lives Again
In the end, France comes to honoring its extraordinary women
Forgiving Myself Forgiving Ourselves
Artists use all the material our lives deliver to us–but the professional cost can be very high.
Counterculture Culture
For most of Grandfather’s neighbors and friends, memory of the communes is sharp and sour. We have yet to sweeten it.
Art
Art doesn’t “fix” pain, but it provides a version of that tiny interval after the sufferer wakes and before the pain is remembered.
Your 16 Favorites of 2016
As this memorable year comes to an end, I’ve chosen my sixteen most popular posts of the year, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
It took a revolution in critical standards for the way women work to be given equal status with the way traditionally men have worked.
Art in a Time of Danger
I felt the absence of art, in any form, during the last, terrible week.
An Independent Will
Charlotte Brontë described the alienation that colored my childhood, and the childhood of so many girls, then and now.