Introduction

What is The New Yorker? I know it’s a great magazine and that it’s a tremendous source of pleasure in my life. But what exactly is it? This blog’s premise is that The New Yorker is a work of art, as worthy of comment and analysis as, say, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Each week I review one or more aspects of the magazine’s latest issue. I suppose it’s possible to describe and analyze an entire issue, but I prefer to keep my reviews brief, and so I usually focus on just one or two pieces, to explore in each the signature style of its author. A piece by Nick Paumgarten is not like a piece by Jill Lepore, and neither is like a piece by Ian Frazier. One could not mistake Collins for Seabrook, or Bilger for Goldfield, or Mogelson for Kolbert. Each has found a style, and it is that style that I respond to as I read, and want to understand and describe.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Robert Kushner's Gorgeous Paintings

Robert Kushner, For Betty (2022)







Johanna Fateman’s recent "Art: Robert Kushner" (The New Yorker, March 13, 2023) spurred me to visit dcmooregallery.com and view Kushner’s exhibition “Then & Now.” Wow! Kushner’s paintings are gorgeous! Fateman’s description of his recent works – “lusciously digressive elaborations and tributes to Matisse’s tabletop vistas” – is perfect. If I had the dough, I’d buy at least six. I think my favourite is For Betty (see above). Thank you to Fateman for leading me to this wonderful artist. 

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