Category Archives: Art

Nasslit Presents: Art and Ekphrasis in New York City

The Nassau Literary Review is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City! Continue reading

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It Be What? Figuring Out “What I Be”

What I Be? Photography by Steve Rosenfeld  There are faces, expressions, declarations– “I am not my–distance/emotions/ethnicity”– and bold black ink scrawled on skin– “I will judge you/ Not just the goofy kid/ Wallflower.”  Yet the very first thing I noticed … Continue reading

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Art in Search of a Manual

The problem is when a work actually can’t speak for itself. At that point, no amount of captioning is going to save it. Continue reading

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Visions of the Everyday

“Dancing Into Dream, Maya Vase Painting of the Ik’ Kingdom” Princeton University Art Museum Runs Oct. 6, 2012 to Feb. 17,2013 Dark against the glazed orange background, fat and sparsely clothed men sit cross-legged and gesture at each other.  Kings … Continue reading

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