Novelist Siri Hustvedt has a sharp eye for visual art. In her book of essays Mysteries of the Rectangle, she reflects on paintings by such artists as Francisco de Goya, Gerhardt Richter, and Joan Mitchell with the elegant prose of a poet and the scholarship of an art historian. Follow along as she talks about the act of looking while discussing selected works in the exhibition Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980–2005.
Siri Hustvedt on Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith, My Blue Lake, 1995
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