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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 […]
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Sketchbook # 18: Ebenezer Singh
I’ll let Nietzsche himself introduce these drawings: “To ‘give style’ to one’s character — a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses that their nature has […]
What Meets The Eye
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 […]
What Meets the Eye
Michele Araujo Playing Around
You might as well forget genre when you encounter Araujo’s work. There is an insistence on playfulness, freedom and improvisation. I guess you’ll know what I mean when I say that you have to be […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
La MDA
blueprint of prophecy & cunning the inevitable goes ahead eyes & smiles & look & fox pure talk of i am very introspective & often do nothing I know who i work for […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
blackened pink gates
okay romcom & the guy from the pseudo italian “Späti” said not in a good spot i have brain & eye 8 days in hospital they don’t know nothing buzz bomb no stroppy stromatolites no […]
