Category Archives: art

UNTITLED ABSTRACTIONS

    Click this link for details of a new exhibition at The Room By Sadiq Toma. Wednesday 5th December 2018-Tuesday 5th February 2019  Private View – Tuesday 4th December 2018 6pm – 9pm

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We Live in a Nuthouse

  Brilliant piece in Hyperallergic.  Click here for this Studs Terkel/Zero Mostel interview posted by Karen Schiff.

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Charged Atmospheres

Charged Atmospheres – Alison Marchant A new exhibition at The Room – 33 Holcombe Road, London N17 9AS Sat 30 September – Sunday 12 November, 2017    Private View – Saturday 30 September from 6pm – 9.30pm. Alison Marchant presents … Continue reading

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THE NEW BEAUTY

  Click the link for THE NEW BEAUTY This is an essay published by The Fortnightly Review.   For a complete list of links to other reviews of poets and my previous articles click here: The Fortnightly  

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FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Stuart Sherman and Robert Wilson (1979)

FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Harpers & Queen, May 1979 I reckon this is a historic document, so re-publish it here. On a still undefined boundary of modern art painter Sol LeWitt, dancer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass are working … Continue reading

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

(This post last updated 1 January 2026) Ten Poems from Shorter Poems 1969-2022 published in The High Window. A Review of Autumn, plus an interview in CHAINLINK JOURNAL Review of Collected Longer Poems by Jennifer Johnson published in London Grip, … Continue reading

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THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ART (1925) Jose Ortega y Gasset

This essay has been a major influence on my work and my thought.  I read it in my twenties, and still value it greatly.  Ortega has always been appreciated by US intellectuals, but is hardly ever cited by writers on art and … Continue reading

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Grotesque: Ancient and Modern

Originally posted on anthonyhowelljournal:
“In the famous Kerch terracotta collection we find figurines of senile pregnant hags. Moreover, the old hags are laughing. This is a typical and very strongly expressed grotesque.  It is ambivalent.  It is pregnant death, a…

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Pictures at an Exhibition – Sketch 1.

A lovely piece of Performance Art by Milica Vukovic relating to a picture by Mark Williams, which was shown in his  exhibition at The Room in May 2015.

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Click Links!

Art is not created in a vacuum.  If you click on the “Links” link on my website (anthonyhowell.org)  you get to artists, poets, musicians and film-makers I admire as well as to a variety of my own interests. http://www.anthonyhowell.org/Links.htm

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