3 posts tagged ‘Culture / Postscript’
Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths
The New Yorker,
“I find it all very difficult,” the late German-born British artist said, and few painters have done as much to show the struggle of creative endeavor.
Lev Rubinstein, a Devoted and Defiant Lover of Language
The Russian poet and essayist was a founding member of the Moscow conceptualist movement, an “implausibly social” presence in Moscow, and a firm believer to the end in the possibility of living in Russia with dignity and decency.
Working with Joan Acocella
A former New Yorker fact checker recalls a serious saint who prized fun.