Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Year: 2017
The Pencil Review
What Meets the Eye
The Early Work Now: Romare Bearden and Robert Motherwell
It was coincidence that I saw these two shows within days of each other: the following remarks are kind of coincidental as well. That the early work leads to the later work is […]
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Bad Kitty
Chapter 6: Bad Kitty and the Donors
Though Bad Kitty continued to enjoy the havoc wrought by Celia’s leaks—which were still causing heads to roll among those energy executives appointed to EPA–the oligarchy held on, wampum ruled, and new snakes […]
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Der Defätist / The Defeatist
bethesda green and fair
… in the beginning too weak to take off… Absurd rises still higher, it’s not even the notion of propriety or ruin hey, pretty baby – opinion, story, argument – do you subside in […]
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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 […]