The Collector
The Collector #3
Dave King / Ellen Berkenblit I went to college with Ellen Berkenblit. We weren’t in any classes together, but we had mutual friends, and I viewed her as the girl who was always around: […]
Year: 2020
What Meets the Eye
Bob Seng Was in the Navy
I was quite unexpectedly moved by Nexit 9. I had anticipated enjoying Seng’s game of re-ordered exit signs, but not that I would be idly staring at Nexit 9 when it became a barge and […]
The Collector
The Collector # 2
Rachel Youens/ Russell Twiggs I never thought Mr. Russell Twiggs knew or noticed me. I was the child who scrambled around the Beaux Arts building at Carnegie Tech on Saturday afternoons while my dad […]
The Pencil Review
What Meets the Eye
Susan Rothenberg: The Search for a Subject
I was into women and horses, horses, horses in the 70s: Susan Rothenberg, Patti Smith* and to a lesser extent, Deborah Butterfield. I have to go into the time machine to analyze why Rothenberg’s paintings […]
The Collector
The Collector # 1
C. Carr: Judy Glantzman This Judy Glantzman piece has presided over my workspace now for decades. It’s an un-portrait. That’s my name for it because Judy’s work is about people who are not posing. She’s […]
Bad Kitty
BAD KITTY AND THE TOOTHACHE
A toothache, thought Bad Kitty, is like someone else’s dog scratching at your guest-bedroom door all night. A toothache is a cold vibrating funnel sucking in the undone chores (the unanswered emails, the phone calls […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
drilling emptiness
hydraulic stilts more than fifty shipping containers on the drifting ice shelf of denialism a johnsian thing with tap root a latter day alchemy a flag with atmosphere as big as two or three conveniences […]
The Collector
The Collector: Coming Soon!
Artists need money, that goes without saying. But they also need collectors, individuals who see something in their work that should be cared about, lived with, thought about and preserved for the future. I would […]
What Meets the Eye
Is it Fair (to Valloton) to Hang Picasso’s Gertrude Stein Right Next to Valloton’s Gertrude Stein at Valloton’s show at The Met?
It really isn’t. Not at all. Picasso’s Stein is a masterpiece and just so much better than Valloton’s Stein or anything else in the show. […]