Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Year: 2019
What Meets the Eye
The Whitney Biennial 2019: Is it Safe?
“…elegant but safe portrait of right now.” Andrew Russeth, Art News “…why is this year’s show so safe?” Nadja Savej, The Guardian “…missing a radical spirit” and “Some artists in the show identify as activists, […]
Parables
Parable #16: Question
My pool game was off. I had lost three of the last four matches. Anders said, “Do you think it might be the way you’re relating to the material?” —Adam Simon
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
morn straits
in the wee hours of bird song a twinkle, a blink the black slate of transliteration runs across the orange rising of winging baby pheasants breaking the dips of vite … vite phasis daybreak […]
What Meets the Eye
Bel Fullana and the Rape of Isla Bonita
Does All inclusive look like a display of “playful sexual freedom” to you? This painting and the other two paintings in this essay are described that way in the gallery press release, which also employs […]
Featured Posts
Happy Father’s Day from Talking Pictures! “Suffering” (2010)—a film by Keith Sanborn
There is no catch and release in this beautifully spare “instructional video.” Life, Death, Danger, Love and an Existential Question—or two—captured in a single take. —CNQ
What Meets the Eye
Bellinger Battles Elemental Forces, Sfraga Furthers Evolution
The two predominant modes of categorizing paintings are describing them as abstract or figurative, and pronouncing them to be more “realistic” if closer to a photographic image. Neither is of any use in considering Len […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Letters to the Editor
Letter about the shepherdesses of lyra
Finally read your poem! “Stories that we tell about ourselves To the lyre of self-instrumentalization While knives are floating over the flensing deck Dissention of knives Then Ascension As mounting of the brightest star […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
the shepherdesses of Lyra
lyre & flensing deck lama or roskilde zealand or zealous land lama or roskelley mad knee or mc kee or mac the knife we’ll see “teltowkanal” 1961 someone took suit & briefcase to be […]