News•Mar 9, 2026
Jane Swavely
New York‑based artist Jane Swavely, who has painted for over five decades, has turned entirely to reductive color‑field canvases that emphasize materiality over representation. She creates each work by stepping onto the canvas, applying paint with a large brush, then wiping it away with a sponge, often leaving boot‑stained marks. The process incorporates silver pigment for a luminous effect inspired by Dan Flavin. In March, two pieces will appear at the Currier Museum’s Jules Olitski retrospective, while additional works debut at Milan’s Kaufmann Repetto Gallery.
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News•Mar 6, 2026
Eulogy for a Yenta
Jordy Rosenberg’s latest novel, *Night Night Fawn*, follows Barbara Rosenberg, a dying, OxyContin‑addicted woman, as she records a raw monologue to her estranged trans son and former friend. The narrative weaves satire, cultural references—from 1960s Flatbush to Marx—to expose family...
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News•Mar 5, 2026
An American Prophet of the Natural World
Terry Tempest Williams’s new book *The Glorians* continues the American nature‑writing tradition inaugurated by Emerson and Thoreau, proposing that profound meaning resides in the smallest, often‑overlooked encounters with the natural world. Drawing from her life in Utah’s desert and her...
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News•Mar 2, 2026
The Great Decipherment
David Stuart’s new book, *The Four Heavens*, leverages decades of Maya hieroglyph decipherment to present a comprehensive political history of the civilization from 1000 BCE to the Spanish conquest. The work maps the rise, peak, and repeated abandonment of major urban...
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News•Mar 2, 2026
Afloat Between Worlds
In a midnight watch aboard the yacht Lorraine Marie, the author recounts two vivid visions: a herd of spectral bison running alongside the vessel and a luminous infant-like being cradled in his arms. The bison episode evokes ancestral memory, a...
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