October 2016 – Talking Pictures

Death Around Every Corner: Looking for Mushrooms at Woodlawn

October 26, 2016

All over the country, there are mycological societies devoted to mushroom foraging and mushroom education. In New York, the group is a robust collection of experts and novices who spend weekend mornings walking through parks, forests, and cemeteries [...]

Alma Thomas—Only one more week! at Studio Museum Harlem

October 25, 2016

She beguiled me with her rainbows and whispered in my ear, “See how simple it can be?” So I went to school with Alma and she learned me. I started by trying to figure out how she made her paintings–which stroke came first for example? Did [...]

Barbara Friedman draws Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art

October 25, 2016

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Oh, dear Red, what do you do?

October 15, 2016

Are you the oddity of public space? Can i remember you as the nameless, as the bold, as the red chock, as the key to a merely white door? Can i understand you as oddities of public space too – or can i remember you as this: When the legend [...]

Letter from Tim Spelios

October 15, 2016

I dig the three drawings you sketched from “before disembarking”. It’s like hearing a version of a song written for sax, bass, and drums played on piano. Thanks, Tim This letter is a response to our recent pencil review of [...]

Narrative Painting Part II: Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art

October 15, 2016

Staver creates a palette so disciplined and toned down that the light glaring or filtering in, catching an edge of a knife or the side of a goat or a swan or a cardinal’s breast or a shoulder, is startlingly lifelike and shows a very particular [...]

CNQ draws Tim Spelios at Studio 10

October 4, 2016

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You wanna do something for the birds and the bees? Native Plants in October at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

October 4, 2016

These are snapshots I took a few days ago which Uli Lorimer, Curator of the Native Flora Garden, kindly identifies and explains how they fit into the ecosystem. Yes, even in New York City we have an ecosystem! And we could have a better and more [...]