‘The paska must be made with great care….you must keep your thoughts pure and the whole household quiet…. (N)o-one…(is) allowed to come in during its baking lest they make a sudden noise or cast the evil eye, causing the paska to come out flat.’
—Pat Seman from ‘Paska’
Twenty-second Issue
Amsterdam Quarterly’s twenty-second issue on Texture turned out to be ‘an embarrassment of riches’ as AQ received an impressive amount of photography and poetry focused on texture. In addition, two prominent Dutch museums, the Amsterdam Stedelijk and Wassenaar’s Museum Voorlinden, opened retrospectives within weeks of each other devoted to the art of Günther Förg and Wayne Thiebaud respectively, two artists undoubtedly concerned with texture. AQ22 features photography by Jury S. Judge, Jayne Marek, Peter E. Murphy and Bob Ward. There is also fiction by Gabriel Furmuzachi, Amina Imzine, and Keith Perkins, a memoir by Pat Seman and an essay by Bob Ward. As always, there is a generous portion of poetry in a variety of styles and formats by AKaiser, Simon Brod, Jennifer L. Freed, Samuel W. James, Carroll Parris Krauss, Michael Mingo, Liz Robbins, Meryl Stratford, and Jasmine Nihmey Vasdi. Lastly, are reviews of the Günther Förg and Wayne Thiebaud retrospectives.
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