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Sketchbook #32: Jonathan Allen
This is what I wrote about Allen’s work when I saw it in the Brooklyn Artists show in 2024:“I was surprised by how long Popeye held my attention so I looked at Allen’s website. It […]
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Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud!
Ariel Hahn, a librarian friend, wrote an essay* about the damage to the climate caused by cloud storage for libraries and archives. She wasn’t giving solutions so much as suggesting it was a problem to […]
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A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Leck mich im Arsch,” a film by Su Friedrich, starring the dogs of Von King Park with music and lyrics by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What a delicious canine philosophy lesson! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! —CNQ
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AI #3: AI Image Describer vs Seph Rodney, Jackson Arn and Sebastian Smee
The best art critics in my view are the ones who are best at description, what Proust called “the articulation of perception.” * A good critic should describe the work so well that the […]
What Meets The Eye
What Meets the Eye
John Bradford- The Lightness of Being
People can be nice. They can have a small wedding in Central Park under a maple beside a stream, hire a two-piece band, the guy can wear a kilt to symbolize his Scottish heritage—the gal, […]
What Meets the Eye
Beatriz Milhazes: Spinning Off the Spiral and a few remarks about Conceptual Art and Rashid Johnson
It’s startling to step away from the Guggenheim spiral of Rashid Johnson’s “deep thinking” and swirl into the brightly colored world of Beatriz Milhazes. The latest in science is that the right brain /left brain […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
alacrity of 120 fish
120 diddie wah diddies, yes flying owl the least that must be said tis a rapid deployment of hail mary cosmopartisans terminals of defiance wonderhouse of… capitalism all these positions of innocence & brittle skillfulness […]
