Remembering Peter Schjeldahl: indispensable critic, poet, and lyrical observer of the embodied experience of art

It was an afternoon in late August 2019 when the poet and art critic Peter Schjeldahl first got the call from his doctor with the news that his lung cancer had spread.He was driving to meet his wife, Brooke, at their country house at Bovina, in the Catskills.Patsy Cline's Walkin' After Midnight played on the car radio and Schjeldahl had just hit mile 81 of the New York State Thruway.

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