Rachel Youens and Margaret Neill draw “Grounded in Clay”— The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery at the Met
July 14, 2023–June 4, 2024
What Meets the Eye
Three-Dimensional Space: Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
It takes a leap of the imagination, on the part of the curators (of course!) but on the part of the viewers too, to connect Cubism and trompe l’oeil. Once you start leaping though, it’s […]
What Meets the Eye
Visiting “Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art”
The poem reads: “In the shade of the pines, pulsating greenery shelters the level bank; He sits playing a zither of fine jade to quiet the clamor of the world. The song complete, he is […]
What Meets the Eye
Something Wonderful and Something Awful
The wonderful: A series of drawings and poems about a boy looking for a wayward ox. He searches, he wrestles, “With all my energy, I seize the ox,” the ox struggles and charges and disappears […]