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Parable #17: After Taking Down the Trees

November 6, 2019

After Stretch took down the two trees, cut them into sections and loaded them onto his pick up truck, he told me he would be back to rake up the debris. But after two days I figured, no big deal, I would rake it myself. On the third day, a [...]

Victor Muniz and Christian Marclay: One-offs

November 1, 2019

A selling point of both of these shows is that the works shown are “one of a kind” (Muniz) and “unique” (Marclay)l. Actually, they are manufactured objects which they only made one of. High-end manufacturing—but still. A major trend in [...]

Ed Clark, A Great Painter

October 22, 2019

PS I’m very sorry to say that I just found out that Ed Clark died last Friday. In the interview I quote from below, he also said “I want to be called ‘great’.” No problem, Ed. When I saw my first Ed Clark, TBC… ( at “Painting Now and [...]

mixtre

October 17, 2019

the “mixtre” of goals set me up with 300 youths now living in my flat 3.5 percent of a nation’s population can paralyze the plan they said you know bleak is bleak arresting alarming punishing withdrawal from welfare huffing: [...]

Cecilia Whittaker-Doe and Cathy Nan Quinlan draw Catherine Howe at Platform

October 7, 2019

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CNQ draws Lauren Portada at Transmitter

October 5, 2019

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Rachel Phillips: Animated Emotion

September 28, 2019

These paintings remind me of my passion for cartoons as a child. The emotions are so pure. A character is sad; they slump, utterly dejected, or cry a single tear (or an ocean). When mad, a red cloud of steam appears above their head. If scared they [...]

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