A Monarch caterpillar feeding on a Milkweed in our treebed in Bed Stuy. Two caterpillars ate almost the entire plant in a couple days. So I moved them to another milkweed in an empty lot […]
Talking Pictures invitation to a two day event: Six Paintings#1: Cecilia Whittaker-Doe. Opening Fri, Jan 26, 6-9. Talking about the pictures Sunday, Jan 28 at 3 pm. Blue Reach, 48×48″, silkscreen, oil on panel, […]
I was at the Brooklyn Museum and dutifully considering the important pictures and histories, the artists’/museums’ role in raising social and political issues, “proof”, facts, when… Poof! A rabbit popped out of a hat […]
It was coincidence that I saw these two shows within days of each other: the following remarks are kind of coincidental as well. That the early work leads to the later work is […]
The painter who looks for a subject, or doubts his role, has fallen behind in the race. —Fairfield Porter Because I was doubting my role and looking for a subject in the last days […]
I was going to write about Fischl’s economical brushwork but Dennis Kardon did such a super job on that in “HyperA”, and James Cahill in “Art In America” put the hilarious cherry on top […]
Big Bear and the Dragon 2016, oil on linen, 30”x 24” A friend who had read a couple of my reviews (at least one) said I don’t want to like paintings. That’s […]
The Painting Open Casket, Dana Schutz at the Whitney Biennial The thing is, it’s a wonderful painting. As many have noted, there is nothing else like it (or nearly as good in my […]
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