"In the Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden Auden's poem is one of the most famous examples of ekphrasis: the recreation in words of a work of art. It describes Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape With ...

This year's much-anticipated "Ekphrasis" exhibit opens Wednesday at the Artists' Co-op in Mendocino. The annual group exhibit is inspired by "ekphrasis," an ancient Greek word that means "to speak out ...

Ekphrasis is a literary mode that spans the entire breadth of literature, from Achille’s shield to Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’. Defined by James Heffernan as “the verbal representation of graphic ...

When Bloomington poet Patsy Rahn entered The Venue to choose a piece of artwork to inspire her next poem, there were about five left to choose from, she said. She looked around the room for ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Young Marie-Clémentine worked as a seamstress, for a florist, in a market, and, the story goes, as a circus ...

Courtesy photo / This work by Cara Livorio is one in the “Return to Eden” exhibit now on display through Dec. 23. The artist’s works inspired the play “Ekphrasis” written by Scott Riner, who adapted ...

The University of Notre Dame will host award-winning poet Adela Najarro for a talk and poetry reading. Najarro will serve as a Poet-in-Residence at the Raclin Murphy Museum, creating new poems ...

With Duggan’s opening line, Nolan’s idiosyncratically clashing, indecorous palette — fluorescing blue skies, vivid orange and ochre, the murky greens and browns — surges into view. The ominously large ...