In his poem "An Anatomy of the World," John Donne mused "There is no health; physicians say that we /
| In his poem “An Anatomy of the World,” John Donne mused “There is no health; physicians say that we / At best enjoy but a neutrality.”Renaissance thinkers were quite comfortable with the notion that we are always dying. In centuries since, a seductive sense of invulnerability has crept into our self-understanding.A gross exaggeration of this mentality was hideously expressed this past week, but that shouldn’t deter us from confronting a useful lesson from these plague times, one neatly caught in Donne’s next couplet: "And can there be worse sickness than to know/ That we are never well, nor can be so?”– Albert Mobilio, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| An Artist Who Lived to Paint Jon Imber, who succumbed to ALS in 2014, emulated Guston, de Kooning, and others while developing a provocative and personal vision of figure and landscape. Carl Little |
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| Poetry in the Time of a Pandemic Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS amounts to a diary of what it is to be alive in the midst of a pandemic and a growing demand for racial justice. John Yau |
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| Required Reading This week, Jacob Lawrence’s history of the US, interview with the Pence fly, the post-Trump internet, the violence of “dispassionate objectivity,” hijacking #ProudBoys, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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