Why is it that so much writing on art today — ostensibly criticism — only skates on the surface of artworks, providing description, identifying a handful subjects and themes, maybe some precedents, and then a conclusion — or rather, an ending. The writing stops.

The 17th series in the ongoing collaboration between George Quasha’s preverbs and Susan Quasha’s photographic work.

Marguerite Duras’s essay “Joy: we believe: we don’t believe anymore” (1977) translated by Mia Ruf

The main problem that the artist encounters at work — the source of all their woes and triumphs — is that materials must be transformed: made to give what they cannot. Appearance is the mask of the true face beneath.

The most recent idea that appeared to me, so insistently that I felt compelled to write it down, was of painting as a scaffold. This was related to an older idea of mine, of painting as a veil . . .

Adam, you were the one with brooding eyes and a Cheshire smile.

Ten poems translated from the Greek by Pria Louka.

“I wanted to connect to people who were like-minded but also saw this as a new frontier with a lot of possibilities for art making.”

Bret Schneider and Omair Hussain discuss musical composition and their albums Drunk Walks and What Goes Away.

C. Philip Mills reviews Skinamarink

here the vicious ribbons hiss, swanning
their hypnotic cursive dances, as if were calligraphic curses.
thither the come-hither flickers and quick slithers back.

Genese Grill reviews Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914.

Darksome, tenebrous, smoked, obscure / the gloam-time, sable-vested, fumid / hour of the witch / the gathering of storms / she wrote poems good as anyone’s / becloud, bedim, mirksome, engloom / when the moon’s dark / caliginous, somber / it’s a blind man’s holiday / eclipsed / embalmed

Caesura editors Patrick Zapien and Gabriel Almeida talk to Elisa Jensen about her practice.

Caesura editors Patrick Zapien and Gabriel Almeida talk to Jeane Cohen about her practice.

Failure of failures. Gluck and Vika’s adventure comes to an end…for now!

Gluck turns a corner and encounters a challenge he’d never anticipated, revealing the true scale of his conflict. Will he give up…or find new strength?

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Ted Berrigan’s Collected Prose.

Breaking out of jail is something of a specialty for Gluck. Finding his way around an unfamiliar city isn’t hard either. What does Gluck struggle with? I’m glad you asked!

In this special Christmas-tangential installment, Gluck and Vika sneak their way around Utrecht, stealing fish and whispering. See you all in 2023!