The Pencil Review
Year: 2017
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Jeffrey Bishop interviews Susan Sontag Seattle, 1981
John Berger died, which made Paul D’Agostino search out and recommend the video of a John Berger/Susan Sontag conversation broadcast on television back in 1983 (link below). That got me and Paul talking about Sontag […]
What Meets the Eye
“I’ll bet this looks easy” Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim Museum
I don’t like Agnes Martin. Do you have a problem with that? How can we have a dialogue if we only think and talk about what we like? I didn’t like her, but […]
Letters to the Editor
David Brody explains his “perspective”
My paintings are not isometric. I use chalk lines (without chalk) to make perspective grids, usually two-point, with the horizon line above the top of the painting. I don’t work out true perspective recession (checkerboard […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Red and Green
progression, what does it mean? to step forward ….? forewearde: “toward the front, in front; toward the future; at the beginning” let us sing the word scout to disclose the outpost – the modern girl […]
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