Artists and writers seem to feel that their work has to be an effective response to the political and environmental crises. One way I have approached this is, in my museum wanderings, to see which works from the past seem most right to me now [2017]. My two top choices from the modern-art galleries—Pierre Bonnard’s portrait of himself as a boxer (which he wasn’t) and Joan Miró’s “Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves” (This is the color of my dreams).

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: African art, Bonnard, collage, David Koch, Donald Trump, James Baldwin, Marcel Duchamp, Mirό, Rosalind Krauss, Vladimir Mayakovsky