Jul 16, 2018 | 1990s, Criticism, Fine Arts, Luc Sante, The Arts
By Luc Sante Threepenny Review, Winter 1994 We know from photographs and eyewitnesses that René Magritte, throughout his entire career, did his painting in a corner of the dining room, and that he went about his work invariably dressed in suit and tie. The dining room...
Feb 22, 2018 | 2010s, Baseball, Book Excerpts, Fine Arts, Sports, The Arts, Wilfred Santiago
By Wilfred Santiago From 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente, 2001 Before Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, Roberto Clemente told Roger Angell, “I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I...
Feb 12, 2018 | 2000s, Criticism, Fine Arts, Luc Sante, The Arts
By Luc Sante From Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!, 2004 In a corner of my office, on top of a bookcase, lies a hunting horn—a sort of bugle, curved in the manner of a French horn. It has occupied a place in my inner sanctum wherever I’ve lived since childhood....
Feb 8, 2018 | 1990s, Charles Simic, Fiction, Fine Arts, The Arts
By Charles Simic From Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, 1992 Preface I have a dream in which Joseph Cornell and I pass each other on the street. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. I walked the same New York neighborhoods that he did between 1958...
Feb 4, 2018 | 1960s, Criticism, Fine Arts, Hilton Kramer, The Arts
By Hilton Kramer The New York Times, 1964 Edward Hopper has long been a living classic of American art. This is not always the happiest fate for an American artist. Often it means only that a lucky formula was hit upon early in a career that was thereafter sustained...
Feb 3, 2018 | 1990s, Essays, Fine Arts, Peter Richmond, The Arts
By Peter Richmond GQ It’s not that a ’70 BMW 2800 CS Coupe isn’t the most magnificent machine ever designed by man. It is. Or that I wouldn’t orchestrate a major drug deal to own one—or even drive one, just once, along an autumnal Vermont mountain road, en...
