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Sketchbook # 19: Loren Munk
It occurred to me that Loren Munk’s paintings must take some planning and boy, was I right! For his ability to picture Time and Space in an ingenious, gorgeous way, he deserves a chapter in […]
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Sketchbook #18: Stephanie Pierce
I expected some dancing landscapes from Stephanie Pierce but instead she sent an intimate series of portraits of a day in the life of a man and a cat. Here is how she describes […]
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Michele Araujo: “To Begin”
I had always assumed Michele Araujo’s paintings were abstract but her recently published memoir To Begin made me wonder. Probably best to never assume. —CNQ See more of Araujo’s […]
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Sketchbook # 19: Robert Egert
Contemporary jester, Robert Egert allows us into his world for a minute. Don’t stay too long or you might get lost in there. This is how he describes the series: “Some time ago […]
What Meets The Eye
What Meets the Eye
Trompe l’Oeil Below Canal Street
It seems that the “Cubism/ Trompe l’Oeil” show at The Met has had immediate effect——well, not the Cubism part, just the trompe l’oeil part, three out of four galleries I visited the other day were […]
What Meets the Eye
A Few Ideas about Art Criticism: Part 2
When I wandered into Gagosian in 2016 at the very beginning of my career as an art critic and saw Jeff Koons’ Gazing Balls, I went up to look closely at the reproduction of Manet’s […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
cat’s watershed
word not a finished thing but sketchy shuffle & stomp sound barrier Whomp edelweiss pirates oh, might can bless your heart let’s fake deep state inequality slavery legacy succession ulterior motives translation well, goopy saragassum […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
glass beads
Billions of tonnes of water & they are only interested in what i’m wearing underneath my glass beads don’t matter just movement that follows logical sequence this grueling exercise of sequins my party dress […]
