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Sketchbook #11: Ying Li
“Ducks’ Ditty” All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! From “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame (full poem here) The ducks don’t like it. They […]
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The Interior Life of Gideon Bok
Bok is a good painter with a good subject, a classic—his studio, which functions both as a world to observe, a portrait of his family and a metaphor for , perhaps—the contents of his brain. […]
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A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Observando El Cielo” by Jeanne Liotta
Christmas, 1958, Tampa, Florida. I was sure Santa would bring a pony, but he brought a tent. My brother, eleven at the time, was supposed to spend the night with me in it in the […]
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Successes in the Garden for Native Plants: the Monarch and the American Lady, in Brooklyn!
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 […]
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Talking Pictures presents (a two day event): Six Paintings # 1: Cecilia Whittaker-Doe
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, […]
What Meets the Eye
Robert Longo Blew Me Away at The Brooklyn Museum
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 […]
What Meets the Eye
The Early Work Now: Romare Bearden and Robert Motherwell
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 […]
What Meets the Eye
Finding Fairfield Porter at the Met
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 […]
What Meets the Eye
Eric Fischl and the Big Uneasy
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 […]