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Sketchbook #33: Lisa Taliano
I was in Assisi once for a single afternoon and in my memory of it, I am within its walls and floating above the town. I’m surprised by the way Taliano captures that visceral memory. […]
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Sketchbook #32: Jonathan Allen
This is what I wrote about Allen’s work when I saw it in the Brooklyn Artists show in 2024:“I was surprised by how long Popeye held my attention so I looked at Allen’s website. It […]
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Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud!
Ariel Hahn, a librarian friend, wrote an essay* about the damage to the climate caused by cloud storage for libraries and archives. She wasn’t giving solutions so much as suggesting it was a problem to […]
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A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: “Leck mich im Arsch,” a film by Su Friedrich, starring the dogs of Von King Park with music and lyrics by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What a delicious canine philosophy lesson! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! —CNQ
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AI #3: AI Image Describer vs Seph Rodney, Jackson Arn and Sebastian Smee
The best art critics in my view are the ones who are best at description, what Proust called “the articulation of perception.” * A good critic should describe the work so well that the […]
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AI #2: I Asked AI for a Negative Review of My Paintings (ouch!)
If you read my essays in What Meets the Eye, you will know that I’m always going on about the need for more critical reviews. How will we know whether to trust a critic if […]
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AI# 1: AI Review of Michele Araujo’s paintings à la New York Times’ Critics
The witty and playful sculptor Jude Tallichet thinks her friend Michele deserves more critical attention (and so do I) so she prompted AI: “Write a review of Michele Araujo’s paintings in the style of R.S. […]
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Sketchbook #31: Larry Silver
I have always thought of Silver’s work as abstract and enigmatic. Now I can see it is also explosive, comical and full of images: forests, people, machines, seas and ships, carnival rides and storms. […]
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Sketchbook # 30: James Bascara paints Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low”
Recently remade by Spike Lee (Highest to Lowest), Kurosawa’s version tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondo (the fabulous Toshiro Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company at which he is a […]
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Singers Unlimited: Saturday 8:00am-10:00am, Sunday 8:00am-10:00am, and Thursday 6:00am-8:00am WBGO 88.3 FM
I woke up this morning singing “Love, Love is the answer…” Why? Because it has to be. Lezlie Harrison* and Janis Siegel* are singers, deep scholars of the human voice and the funniest, coolest and […]