The Art of Love

A Sketched Guide to Michelangelo

The Michelangelo show at the Met is a conundrum. On the one hand, the work is for the most part so private. On the other hand, the show is a blockbuster, full to the brim with the kinds of people who go to big name museum shows.

February 24, 2018

The Machine is Calling

Soft City by Pushwagner is something of a miracle. The comic-strip dream book is unlike anything ever drawn, the sort of magical object one wakes up from seeing in the imagination only to fade within seconds of consciousness.

October 8, 2016

Hamlet, My Prince of Pigs

You’ll see that Hamlet: Prince of Pigs has been stripped of all fat. And tragedy minus many words is comedy. A pared-down Hamlet is a funny Hamlet. Here are a few scenes from my tragicomic.

February 25, 2018

Luc Tuymans: A Retrospective

In “Gray Magic,” from the February 11 issue of The New York Review, Sanford Schwartz writes about the Luc Tuymans retrospective, which will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 6 to May 2. (It originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in…

January 22, 2010

Flannery O’Connor, Cartoonist

Flannery O’Connor’s linoleum-cut prints offer glimpses into the work of the writer she would become.

July 6, 2012

The Artist’s Closet

Every Friday night I go to the Met to draw.

July 21, 2017