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Wheels of Birds
by Dana Kinstler

Clogged/only with/Music, like/ the Wheels of Birds

their high/Appoint/ment/Afternoon and/

the West and/the gorgeous/nothings

which/ compose/ the/ sunset/ keep

—Emily Dickinson, Envelope Poems

In Luminous Flux, at Cadogan Gallery in Milan, Elise Ansel presents 14 radiant, glowing paintings evenly divided into two sets of sevens: the Woman in Blue series inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter (c.1663) and the Woman in Red paintings which spring from Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donor also known as the Cornbury Park …