Art Newsletter No. 42 covers the art and illustrations in the April 9 and April 26 issues of the Review , and it comes to you from the kitchen sink. I’ve always loved the term “kitchen sink.” It can mean a surplus of something, as in “kitchen sink cookies,” which contain pretzels, gummy bears, or whatever’s on hand; or it can mean a kind of working-class realism, as in the “kitchen sink realism” of postwar British dramas, set in cold-water flats and bedsits. I sometimes like to stop and appreciate the random still lifes that form inside my kitchen sink: a marble repository, variously filled with wilted flowers, carrot peels, dirty dishes, and sponges. The cover of our April 9 issue is a 2023 painting titled Orange Squeeze , by the New York–based artist Rachel Domm . After unintentionally designing two covers in a row that featured paintings of people bundled up, Domm’s cheery, bright depiction of a thumb and finger holding a citrus was a welcome promise of vitamin C, and spring.…