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Jonas is the subject of two revelatory exhibitions now on view in New York—along with the MoMA retrospective (through July 6), the Drawing Center is presenting a survey of works on paper, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” through June 2. When I try to get an overview of Jonas’s work, I often consider the title of a work of hers from 1973: Glass Puzzle. I saw a version of this piece in her 2018 retrospective at London’s Tate Modern—Glass Puzzle II, which is dated 1974/2000 and incorporate...

It is difficult to write about spring. Or, I should say, difficult to write originally about spring. The idea has been tried. By everyone. Everywhere. But we still try: lifted

MARION — The Marion Art Center’s Spring Arts series kicked off with a variety of performanc

Our columnist selects the books that have stuck with her this year.

The Iowa City Book Festival returns in Iowa City from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13, featuring dozens of writers, poetry performances, book fairs and more.

The Iowa City Book Festival returns in Iowa City from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13, featuring dozens of writers, poetry performances, book fairs and more.

Find something to do this fall with our event listings.

Ideas of order in poetry.

It’s supposed to be solemn and settledAnd in celebration of the individual human life,Whatever it is. It’s each of us of course,And yet the view we have of it is so obliqueIt might as well be one of nobody at all,Or of a vague interior with a figure in a roomWho could be anyone. This sense that it’s so closeIt must be you: what do we really know of it,And how could anything that simple be that rea...

I never cared for Cream or Eric Clapton’s songs, Though his guitar can break my heart, as it does on “Layla,” Only not because of the song. Susan and I went to the wedding Of a friend whose name I can’t remember, and her fiancé Butchie, in a picture-perfect church I still remember on Cape Cod. There were pews and vows, tuxedoes and a wedding gown As they came skipping down the church steps, beamin...