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Sketchbook #15: Jacque Rochester
“Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented.” Chaim Soutine I love that quote and maybe charcoal should be added, too. Jacque Rochester’s work is luscious and generous but she’s awfully sparse with her […]

“Lucky Breaks” and a daily update of life in Kiev: THE WAR DIARY OF YEVGENIA BELORUSETS
In Lucky Breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets documents Russia’s war on Ukraine (that began in the Donbas region in 2014), in a series of fictional vignettes that are very sad, also very funny and right now, uncomfortably […]

Check Out the agadmator!
Of course you don’t want to waste time in the studio watching chess videos.. but then again cognitive fixation impedes creativity in chess and presumably in painting too, so… The agadmator (Antonio Radić) is known […]
What Meets The Eye

William Klein’s “YES!” at the ICP. Yes!
I bet William Klein likes Yes! The photographs are presented in grids on the wall with no glass, on tabletop video projections showing a hand turning the pages of a book and in slide shows […]

“Queer Eye” Two: A Decent Proposal (The Painters)
At the beginning of each episode, Bobby, Johnathan, Karamo, Antoni and Tan are driving to meet their “next victim”, as they put it, and discussing their project for the week. In this episode it […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist

the plume
been bumblebee illustrated next to the plus sign of moon on the short-lived crinkle of water ephemeral fragility of moon in the water this shadow, not reified rather “bezant” & a solid shadow a smoke […]