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Border Crossings presents issue 164 on Art & Poetics.

UNIVERSALIZING HISTORIANS have given the newspaper comic strip a distinguished pedigree as the twentieth-century descendant of sacred Egyptian hieroglyphics. True or not, no classic strip was better suited to embellish the inner sanctum of Pharaoh Tut’s tomb than Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running tot saga Nancy. 

THE LARGE OIL PAINTINGS that Martha Diamond showed in New York two seasons ago took some extra scrutinizing before their visibility, and even their sensational impacts, could register. Disoriented viewers…

University of Kentucky Art Museum is proud to announce the first examination of the various collaborations that poet and critic John Yau has created with a range of visual artists during the past five decades. “Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations,” running Jan. 9 to June 1, 2024, includes paintings, mixed media works on paper, print portfolios, artist books and ephemera. A reception celebrating this new exhibition and others will be 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10.

Martha Diamond, a painter’s painter who captured the endlessly changing face of New York’s buildings, streets and light-filled vistas with d