Articles by Talking Pictures

the yoo-hoo call

March 19, 2021

sweet rider in Blue of harnessed senses fabric doused in a crystal pink falling whispering: portals never work a long line of canvases reaching out to meet with the silvery darts of a Reinhardt cue by & by leading up to the sitting room four [...]

stone and Mr Stone

February 23, 2021

somebody’s stone cap reached my hill cap over the mill in coney island a common gem very hard still just a pebble from the testicle stem a stone’s throw away from an antique store they did not let me in hey made in stone they had [...]

I like Albers and Morandi—But Not Together

February 17, 2021

…because they are so elegant and so tastefully presented that I keep imagining a living room in shades of ecru with earth-toned pillows. The concept of the curator seems to be that these two painters are compatible: analogous colors, small sizes, [...]

pruners

January 23, 2021

a pair of clear & simplest near laid out in desperate sands oh Fini land i said: “Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres? ” i know [...]

A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Drift of Juicy” and “Heiliger Abend” by Ursula Pürrer

December 24, 2020

Drift of Juicy looks like it was made with high-tech digital effects but Pürrer made it in 1989 with analog video. It was unique then and is literally inimitable today. Whether it takes place in outer or inner space, is dystopian or utopian, I’ll [...]

sage

December 21, 2020

a manner a group of soft ware entrepreneurs an office a stage a barista pro an assessment a decision a gray green enamel ornamental knot weed family low scrub land plant a bush a computer an american rapper a greek school a donor a missus indoors [...]

these days

November 18, 2020

these days i do things with empty chairs i do things with crows too age of world lost to the worlds hello bottom i sit in front of chairs the Bottle Cup of marvelous airs lost friend’s dunno sun without arc all irk no lark it’s [...]

The Drawings of Matt Freedman

November 15, 2020

In performance, Matt drew upside down on a pad he hung around his neck—so generous! rightside up for us. By chance and this is very Freedmanesque if you know what I mean, I read a line or two of “On Grand Strategy” * today at the Strand: [...]

CNQ draws Joan Snyder at Canada

October 21, 2020

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The Collector #21

October 19, 2020

Keith Sanborn / Les LeVeque We’re already in deep with the title, which amounts to at least a partial description of one of my favorite paintings. It hangs dark yellow on pushpins through gromets on the pale yellow wall above the two monitors in [...]