Judith Harris

May 1, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Judith Harris

You have found another one,this time landing on the floor of the living room, a strange interloper, in its old frayed capefrantically batting its wings, a pallid texture

Jan 6, 2024 | calitreview.com | Judith Harris

ROME – Paul Bril is hardly a household name, but to art historians the Flemish master is hailed as a seminal landscape painter whose haunting and inventive works are “almost surreal,” in the words of Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican museums. Paolucci was speaking November 12th at the inauguration of the decade-long restoration of the San Silvestro (Saint Sylvester) Chapel in Rome, whose high vaulted ceiling and lunettes Bril decorated.

Sep 15, 2023 | terrain.org | Rob Carney |Judith Harris

I drive our son Jameson to school, and sometimes I have the radio tuned to Morning Edition on NPR. The timing is pretty good because now and then, around 8:45, I’ll catch a four-minute segment by a woman who’s an expert on trees. Anyway, back in March she was talking about where chocolate comes from—cacao trees—and explaining that their seed pods grow straight from the trunk. That’s rare. Usually, seed pods hang from the branches.

Jul 31, 2023 | criticalflame.org | Judith Harris

Ron Slate’s much awaited third volume of poetry, Joy Ride resonates with personal alienation, historical memory rooted in the Holocaust, mortality and decay, but also reaffirms the transcendent importance of art in opposition to literal objectification. In “Vigil”—just one of the poems in which the poet keeps a vigil beside a dying or dead person—the speaker is left alone with the body of his misanthropic cousin, following a ritual in Judaism that is intended to pay respect to the dead.