Tag Archives: Visual Art

Multigenerational Music: Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith

The subject of intergenerational performers has been dear to my heart since I learned that my maternal grandmother’s family had broadcast a live AM radio show on Saturday nights from New York City in the Thirties and Forties. I was inspired to explore … Continue reading

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LPR Loves…Acoustic Art

We keep coming across amazing material that doesn’t fit neatly into any of the pieces that we’re preparing. So we started the “LPR Loves…” series, where we simply share it with you without too much additional comment. When I sit … Continue reading

Posted in Brooklyn NY, Jazz, Minimalism, Music, Studio Museum in Harlem, Visual Arts, Wein Prize | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

What Sets Us Apart: LPR at AWP

Nothing helps a literary journal clarify its personality like trying to stand out at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference. The annual AWP get-together is one of the largest of its kind. This year’s event, held in the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Elisavietta Ritchie’s Feathers or Love on the Wing

Both bird and people watchers can catch colorful glimpses in Elisavietta Ritchie’s new chapbook Feathers or Love on the Wing. In this volume, Ritchie transforms birds and nature into metaphors for living, loving and dying. Ritchie’s poems appear against full-page watercolors … Continue reading

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Print Issue Preview: 30 Authors and Artists Address Doubt

For our first 12 print issues, you’ve had to wait for the launch party to sneak a peek at what’s inside. But seeing that 13 is a lucky number and our Issue 13 comes out at the start of 2013, a most … Continue reading

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Delighting in Doubt: Deceptive Art

Between belief and disbelief, certainty and uncertainty, trust and distrust lies doubt. Doubt can be deliberate questioning or a state of indecision, resulting in a reassessment of what reality means or a paralyzing suspension between contradictory propositions. An uncomfortable condition, … Continue reading

Posted in Anamorphic art, Ann Arbor MI, Architecture, Doubt, Essays, Impossible objects, Installations, Op art, Painting, Photography, Renaissance, Sculpture, Street Art, The Sixties, The University of Michigan | Tagged , , , , , | 7 Comments

In the Face of Doubt and Uncertainty: LPR Cover Art Selection

It was a beautiful weekend for the Baltimore Book Festival. My parents were in town, enjoying the bookstalls. The great weather meant huge crowds at the food trucks, though, so we ducked into the Walters Café for lunch. While my father enjoyed … Continue reading

Posted in Art Exhibits, Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore MD, Doubt, Eras, Painting, Renaissance, The Walters Art Museum, Urbino Italy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

Our Memorable Audacity Issue

Audacity and I had a test of wills a few weeks ago. On a whim, I’d signed up my teenaged son, my brother–eight years my junior–and myself for a mud run. We had eight weeks to train for the run, … Continue reading

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Concerning Craft: Raoul Middleman

The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. “Middleman is at once a supremely painterly painter and a writerly painter,” art … Continue reading

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What Audacity Looks Like

This gallery contains 22 photos.

The other day, I came across photographs of the audacious Russian street-art group Voina. What struck me most was how ordinary the members looked. They could have easily been any undergrads from any American campus. Yet, the Russian government has brought … Continue reading

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