“Under Construction, An Ekphrastic Essay” by Richard Hoffman and JD Scrimgeour
This month’s collaborative video essay “Under Construction, An Ekphrastic Essay” by Richard Hoffman and JD Scrimgeour assays Salvador Dali’s horrific painting, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, Premonition of Civil War (1936),” which was first exhibited in England six months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Hoffman and Scrimgeour chronicle Dali’s prophetic vision of what Robert Burns called “man’s
Emanuel’s Elegies: “Something about art/ And its opportunities” by Deborah Bogen
Emanuel’s Elegies: “Something about art/ And its opportunities” Lynn Emanuel is the author of three books of poems, none of which can be described simply as “a collection of poems.” They are poems making an argument, a triptych with a project. What that project is has been the subject of inquiry, essay and interview, a discussion complicated not only by
