Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder
A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers and sex workers, and finds an impotent melancholy within these often nightmarish scenes. more
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Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Aby Warburg spent his life finding forms that could hold their own against the flow of time. All the while, as Kevin Dann explores, he was churning on the brink of madness with the sense that he himself was changing — into a terrifying animal. What kind of history would a werewolf write? more
