October 23, 2015
“This Balance Hangs in a Place That Is Not” : The Work of Michael Hafftka
In A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of Michael Hafftka’s work at the Housatonic Museum of Art, Michael Bordsky compares the artist and the “creatures” of his paintings […]
September 15, 2010
The Trouble With a Secret Life
James Baldwin died when I was four and has spent this month as a saintly, intimidating presence on my shoulder, while I’ve worked on a manuscript and read his 1961 […]