Earlier this summer, I had the immense pleasure of viewing the 2019 Whitney Biennial , which is still running, for a few more weeks (until ...

The sign outside Drawing Rooms' former site Note: Originally I had planned to post this in June, but life intervened, so better lat...

Terence Nash (Jemal Countess/ Getty Images), from Colorlines Watching the first episode of filmmaker and musician  Terence Nance '...

Some doodles to pass the time. First, Comey  commentary: James Comey on George Stephanopoulos's show And second, since the ...

I end this month's run of ekphrastic poems with yet another approach to the genre, by  John Yau  (1950-), a poet whose work has gar...

Alex Katz, "Frank O'Hara," cutout: oil on wood (double-sided), 1959, Robert Miller Gallery (via Artsy.net ) One of ...

Shin Yu Pai ( Seattle Review of Books ) Back in 2008, the multi-talented  Shin Yu Pai published a book of collected poems entitled S...

Lorna Dee Cervantes One of the poets whose work appears in the PINTURA: PALABRA portfolio is Lorna Dee Cervantes  (1954-). A major late...

Kenneth Patchen in 1957 with a collection of his painted books, taken on the rooftop of photographer Harry Redl's apartment house ...

Shira Dentz I first saw some of Claude Monet 's (1840-1926) "Waterlilies" paintings on a school trip to the Art Institut...

Anne Carson If you were to list the iconic works of American visual art ,  Edward Hopper 's (1882-1967) " Nighthawks ," ...