You’re not likely to hear a Sufjan Stevens song floating out of the tinny hidden speakers next time you step into an elevator or a waiting room, but it wouldn’t be surprising to catch some of his music playing at the coffeehouse or spliced between segments on NPR. Despite his serious artistic ambitions and undeniable Read More
Contemporary American modernist artists have not, for the most part, taken a keen interest in the work of modernist writers as a subject for their own creations. While a number of our poets have written about the paintings of their contemporaries, few painters have based their work on modern literary classics. My guess is that Read More
The American artist Ray Johnson, whose work is currently on exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, died in 1995 at the age of 67. For much of his career he remained unknown to the mainstream art public. You might even say that public obscurity was something he worked at, sometimes in public. Yet, Read More
