Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Oh, dear Red, what do you do?
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 […]
Year: 2016
Letters to the Editor
Letter from Tim Spelios
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 […]
What Meets the Eye
Narrative Painting Part II: Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art
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 […]
The Pencil Review
Featured Posts
You wanna do something for the birds and the bees? Native Plants in October at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
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 […]
Featured Posts
Bradley Eros at Anthology Film Archives
I wanted to play a digital clip but none exist. To see Eros and feel Eros, you have to be there. I could say more BUT…….. Read the titles and go! EROTIC PSYCHE: BRADLEY […]
The Pencil Review
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
What Meets the Eye
How Much is that Dog in the Window?
One reason that there is so little art criticism is that the shit just doesn’t seem worth talking about. Another is that the artist him-or herself incorporates all possible critiques. Like this crass half-assed factory-made […]
What Meets the Eye
Narrative Painting Part I: Dan Schein’s “Where Do We Dump the Bodies?”
I wonder if other women or even children are beginning to think that adult males are becoming a little too comfortable with the role of the anti-hero? The hopeless, hapless guy who doesn’t know how […]