Front Cover
taylor barnes, Emerge/Imagine, 2020, Charcoal and sewing on cloth, 29.5 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas. Private collection of Charmel Maynard, Miami.
Art Worlds
American Modernists Contemplating Asia
It was with the hope of looking for his own unique way to connect nature and abstraction that Isamu Noguchi went to the East – his other cultural source.
Opening Our Eyes to See
Greene offers a gentle, albeit powerful call-to-action: “The world is chockablock with untold wonders, there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open.”
A Way of Knowing
Kindness, amity, and benevolence are the motivating factors. These aspirations are embedded in the central artwork linguistically with the prominently utilized kanji seals for “heart” and “friend.”
A Weird, Unique Lushness
You don’t have to believe anything spiritual to find yourself bewitched by El Greco’s acidic palette, fantastic settings, and writhing, soaring saints.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Leonardo
The popular picture of Leonardo as an inventor of machines (and the many science-museum exhibitions that have followed) and as a scholar of anatomy was essentially formed in the twentieth century as his manuscripts and drawings were widely published for the first time.
Literary Lives
Please, Mr. Judge Man
In the townships, where there were few social activities besides drinking and sports, and until the early 1990s, gatherings of men were politically suspect. Belonging to an Isicathamiya group was one of the few ways to socialize after a long day of labor.
A Silent Fool
Lear cannot abide silence. He is unable to “hear” the truth of silent testimony about the way things are.
In Praise of Ozsváth and Turner’s Poetry of Translation
Ozsváth and Turner, amazingly, have achieved the impossible: the syllabic count, the metrics, the rhyme scheme, and the even the number and line placement of the feminine endings matches Goethe’s German perfectly.
Folio
Tomorrow, 2019
Riley Holloway lives and works in Dallas.
Sister Jean, 2014
Letitia Huckaby lives and works in Fort Worth.
Jaiden and John Marcus, 2020
Sedrick Huckaby lives and works in Fort Worth.
The Father and The Son, 2019
Desireé Vaniecia lives and works in Dallas.
When the Flowers are in Bloom, 2019
Evita Tezeno lives and works in Dallas.
Endurance, 2020
Jammie Holmes lives and works in Dallas.
Emerge/Imagine, 2020
taylor barnes lives and works in Austin.
Endless
These five poems tell the story of a life. Written between January and April of 2020, they explore my desire to understand the reverberations of physical trauma on me and those I love.
Grassy Knoll Covid Morning
We first have to recognize that the shadow is there and real. We have to step into it, explore it, figure out why it is there and what it is doing to us.
Sciences and Arts
From Laboratory to Museum
Many of the notes written on the pages provide mundane details of the experiments—things a researcher would write as a record for future reference—but across the top of the left page in large, all-capital letters are the words: “TOLL, TOLL, TOLL.”
Voyaging with Charles Darwin on the Beagle
We have to imagine the father of evolutionary science clambering over volcanic landscapes, reeking of sweat, covered in dirt and beetles, like some kind of animistic shaman communing with the wilderness.
The Ancient and Future Art of Terraforming
Human art, human fiction, human invention, human technology, are not unnatural forces that have suddenly erupted into nature, but are the natural continuation of nature’s own evolutionary process.
Coins, Trinkets, Bits and Bobs
Lake takes her readers through a history of artifacts that people dug up or collected in England during the eighteenth century, focusing on coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods as specific case studies.
Current Affairs
Dealing with Disappointment in Democracy
Healthy democracies deal with the disappointment they continuously generate by keeping “winners” and “losers” fluid, always open to reconstitution, not hard-and-fast divisions.
Classicism by Decree
Greenberg dwells on the current function of “kitsch,” which he defines as “academicized simulacra of genuine culture,” and “vicarious experience and faked sensations.”
Will Laughing at and with One Another Save Us?
Israel seems quite correct in his claim that if Melville’s Ahab, with his bitter rage at what is morally offensive and cosmically disordered, may be seen as a representative figure revealing the haunted soul of American white Protestants, for the Jews the complementary imaginative construction is the Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the Milkman.
The Cost of Discipleship
Reitter and Wellmon do propose Weberian vocation as a universal possibility which, if we all acted on it, would grant us more meaningful lives. But an equally plausible conclusion is that there is something wrong with Weber’s ideal of vocation.
