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Left to Right (2011), by Stanley Whitney
Empty and Full: On Stanley Whitney and Jacqueline Humphries (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

When is a little more than enough in a painting?

Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3238

Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
César Aira
Unmanageable Realities: On César Aira (Fiction, Books and the Arts)

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

Marcela Valdes
Portrait of a Young Man (1478), by Antonello da Messina
Faces out of the Crowd: On the Renaissance Portrait (Fine Art, History, Books and the Arts)

How Renaissance painters brought human presence to the fore.

Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3218
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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Untitled (2011), by Ida Ekblad
Restless in Oslo: On Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

An obscure dissatisfaction, a sense that no formal solution works for long, is shared by the art of Ida Ekblad and Edvard Munch.

Barry Schwabsky
Seated Woman (circa 1940), by Willem de Kooning
Vacant, Limpid, Angelic: On Willem de Kooning (Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

MoMA’s de Kooning retrospective.

Barry Schwabsky
Discandied: On Women and Elegy (Poetry, Books and the Arts)

Learning to mourn with Susan Howe, Gertrude Schnackenberg, Anne Carson and C.D. Wright.

Susan Stewart
Puzzle No. 3203
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Escape of Rochefort (1880–81), by Édouard Manet
An Unfinished Tradition: On Édouard Manet (Fine Art)

Édouard Manet has become a popular painter, yet he remains a difficult and unpredictable one.

Barry Schwabsky