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Fifty eight years after Delmore Schwartz’s heart attack in the hallway of a hotel off Broadway in midtown Manhattan, readers have access to almost the full spectrum of his poetry, a gift to anyone who cares about twentieth century verse in English.
IMPRESSIONISM BEGAN IN REVOLT. Against the restrictive system of artistic training, the group embraced art-school dropouts. Against biased selection committees, they opened their ranks to all. Against hierarchical display conventions, they assigned wall space by lots. And so, in December 1873, they formed a société anonyme, a joint stock company. The artists based its charter on that of a bakers’ union and pledged to finance “the organization of free exhibitions, without a jury or honorific prizes, where each one of the associates can show his works.”4 Having no positive doctrine, thei...
From the archives: Michael Fried on Manet
As I think of the successes and failures of artists’ legacies, I’ve learned different stories tell different life’s circumstances, depending on luck and persistent efforts on the behalf of those who are dedicating their lives to perpetually keeping the artists’ works alive and contextually relevant in the former, while in the latter what requires of the artists’ caretakers, be it members of their families, friends or colleagues there my lack of clarity of intentions or self-motivations.
Figurative and intensely personal, Frida Kahlo’s paintings fuse folklore and symbolism to illustrate her lived experience.