Articles by Talking Pictures
Flora Kate Nicholson responds to “termagant”
Thank you for this poem. New images come each time I read it. For me it never rests, it stays hovering, buzzing, tense. have been making my own flight paths (of the bee maidens?) in […]
The New Yorkers: Susanna Heller, Karlis Rekevics and Rackstraw Downes
What happened was that after my painter friend and I saw the show at the Studio School we headed down to the Lower East Side and it was so hot we decided to stop in […]
Sketchbook #23: Willie Kohler
What I like about Kohler’s work is that he makes me feel the Age of Exploration (external and internal) is not over. He’s a contemporary and playful Caspar David Friedrich, a Romantic, but not corny, […]
“The Five Demands” at Firehouse Cinema Friday, July 14 to Thursday July 20
In 1969 a group of black and Puerto Rican Students chained the gates to the campus of the City College of New York, put up posters with their demands for racial justice and inclusivity and […]
Sketchbook #22: Cathy Diamond
To draw the forest is to study complex relationships. Below are a few of the direct studies Diamond has made that indirectly underlie and inform her complex and dynamic paintings. This is how she describes […]
Gail Vachon responds to “A Pretty Good Show…”
I gave up trying to figure out which paintings were paired together and why, it was an unnecessary exercise for viewing what for me was a spectacularly exciting show. One painting after another thrilled […]