Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Month: June 2017
What Meets the Eye
Eric Fischl and the Big Uneasy
I was going to write about Fischl’s economical brushwork but Dennis Kardon did such a super job on that in “HyperA”, and James Cahill in “Art In America” put the hilarious cherry on top […]
Parables
Parable #8: Intimacy
My most intimate moment with another person occurred when Jake threw up in my mouth.
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Bad Kitty
Bad Kitty: Chapter 3
But then there were loud knocks on the door. Pointing at his knapsack, so he’d close the flap over the white boxes, she cracked the door an inch and there stood her neighbor Ruth:”How […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
courts and yards, umgh
hello brooklyln friend, don’t worry, i’m working on the courtyards of berlin …billy’s pics are polar opposites (counterpoint), though not for too much longer, i fear. instead, we will see ordoliberal IT courtyards ( […]
What Meets the Eye
The Intricate Modernism of Anne Harvey
It’s startling, disconcerting even, to come across a painter I don’t know who fits into a historical period—Modern Art ( as TJ Clark defines it)—but in her own way. (A similar thing […]
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