“Queer Eye” Two: A Decent Proposal (The Painters)
At the beginning of each episode, Bobby, Johnathan, Karamo, Antoni and Tan are driving to meet their “next victim”, as they put it, and discussing their project for the week. In this episode it […]
Year: 2022
Adam Simon responds to “Queer Eye” Is Great but the Wall Décor Ain’t
There’s something wonderful about the idea that five gay guys can come into anyone’s life and transform it into a better, truer version of itself. I had my doubts, suspecting that ‘better’ really meant more […]
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Sketchbook #15: Jacque Rochester
“Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented.” Chaim Soutine I love that quote and maybe charcoal should be added, too. Jacque Rochester’s work is luscious and generous but she’s awfully sparse with her […]
Gail Vachon comments on Queer Eye is Great But the Wall Decor Aint
I LOVED, your Talking Pictures post about Queer Eye. But when I tried to “like” it, it opened a dialogue where it asked for my email address and when I typed it in, it […]
What Meets the Eye
“Queer Eye” Is Great but the Wall Décor Ain’t
A visit from The Fab Five is a wonderful thing. Everybody gets a remodeled house, a great haircut, flattering clothes, a cooking lesson, a gentle prodding to take more care of themselves (you are worth […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Letters to the Editor
Adam Simon responds to Vik Muniz’s New Collages (“Scraps”) …
Just read the Vik Muniz piece and finally got to the diaries from Ukraine. Do you think there will be more diaries, or has she left? I signed up just in case they continue. The […]
What Meets the Eye
Vik Muniz’s New Collages (“Scraps”) Not as Awful as the Last Ones (“Surfaces”)…
….simply because here he is not collago-mating great works of art. That was inexcusable. In Scraps, he is manipulating photographs and some of them are his own—probably not Everest but I don’t know—I didn’t see […]
Shangri-La
Window shopping in Chelsea and almost walking on by, I had the thought, “That looks like somebody is knocking off Elliott Green” so I went in. Turned out it was Green himself. Blown up, Disney-fied […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist