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Greg Gerke

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

I imagine there is a mildly correct way to be an art critic, to get caught up in dates and purchases to some degree, and then throw that…

5d ago

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

5d ago

Vermeer in Name Only

I reminded myself that it’s the faces, and the clothes in Rembrandt; almost more than Vermeer, since Vermeer is more concerned with the…

May 9

Vermeer in Name Only

May 9

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

My Bushwick writer friend upbraided me in “public,” telling on me, telling how I liked subjective writers — I thought that was my secret…

May 8

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

May 8

Chet’s Merleau-Ponty Class

Apr 16

Chet’s Merleau-Ponty Class

Apr 16

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Is the sublime aesthetic experience still possible when over fifty? How could I ever doubt it? Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to a writer…

Apr 4

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Apr 4

Excerpt from The Other House

When I write about these things I don’t just feel in control — I am in control. I believe this is why people write fiction — or so I…

Mar 27

Excerpt from The Other House

Mar 27

Excerpt from The Other House

On his mother’s birthday he had a dream that a woman came up to him at an event and hugged him from behind. An Indian woman. Tall. Taller…

Mar 5

Excerpt from The Other House

Mar 5

Life and Time in Art excerpt — Experiences

From T.J. Clark’s If These Apples Should Fall: “The orchard in Garden of Maubuisson’s foreground lay directly behind Pissarro’s house…

Feb 7

Life and Time in Art excerpt — Experiences

Feb 7

Thoughts on The Point’s Alt Lit Essay

This morning I continued reading Proust’s later essay on Flaubert in 1920, written in response to a critic of the day. As I delighted in…

Feb 6

Thoughts on The Point’s Alt Lit Essay

Feb 6

Greg Gerke

Greg Gerke

Author of In the Suavity of the Rock (Splice), See What I See (Zerogram Press) and Especially the Bad Things (Splice) greggerke.com

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