The Pencil Review
Month: September 2017
Letters to the Editor
Comment on:Pleasure and Pain: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
CNQ’s review of Kerry James Marshall’s amazing retrospective at the Met Breuer is so offensive that at first I honestly thought it was a badly executed joke about the White Oppression Complex. Each paragraph made […]
What Meets the Eye
Finding Fairfield Porter at the Met
The painter who looks for a subject, or doubts his role, has fallen behind in the race. —Fairfield Porter Because I was doubting my role and looking for a subject in the last days […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
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Der Defätist / The Defeatist
daughter card blue – terra menes
you can lose mother on an intersection high above a murmuring stream while fish jump as delphinium’s quest written in a trice into the skies i am fish , i don’t have to get […]
Parables
Parable #9: Flow
I like my GP, Dr. Samuelson. I said, I’m getting up twice a night to pee. He said, What if I told you you couldn’t?
What Meets the Eye
“Renoir, my Father” by Jean Renoir
I never used to like Renoir. I suppose I agreed with Degas (who I now find is an anti-Semite—and Renoir too, oh well, a little more about that later)—who called his style “as puffy […]