Royal Quiet DeLuxe

Adela, Bernice, and Charna, the youngest—all gone for a long time now, blurred into a flock sailing through memory, their long, thin legs ...

Oh. OH, wow, this documentary: Gerhard Richter Painting via Blood is the New Black Painting: Gerhard Richter via Blue Vertical Studio

"Gymnast Karin Janz, 15, had been nominated Athlete of the Year in East Germany, where the Cold War propaganda tool of athletic traini...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of thei...

I walked past a house I walked past a house I heard weeping I walked past my father's house I heard weeping It sounded like a roomless d...

"I've always felt the gap between words and things, the impossibility of articulating what's really out there in the world, the...

"I was married ten years ago, on a brazenly warm day in January, from my father's house, in a dress my mother made, with the same b...

Painting by Gerhard Richter, Schlafende (Barbara N.) , 1970

Looking at a painting takes a certain composure, a certain resolve, but when you really do look at one it can be like a door swinging open, ...