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Sketchbook #18: Stephanie Pierce
I expected some dancing landscapes from Stephanie Pierce but instead she sent an intimate series of portraits of a day in the life of a man and a cat. Here is how she describes […]
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Michele Araujo: “To Begin”
I had always assumed Michele Araujo’s paintings were abstract but her recently published memoir To Begin made me wonder. Probably best to never assume. —CNQ See more of Araujo’s […]
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Sketchbook # 19: Robert Egert
Contemporary jester, Robert Egert allows us into his world for a minute. Don’t stay too long or you might get lost in there. This is how he describes the series: “Some time ago […]
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Sketchbook # 18: Ebenezer Singh
I’ll let Nietzsche himself introduce these drawings: “To ‘give style’ to one’s character — a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses that their nature has […]
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Sketchbook #17: John Descarfino
Descarfino composes a delicate set of musical variations on the theme of a window that transport me to different places (some of which I’ve never been to and some of which seem eerily familiar): Moorish […]
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A Christmas Present from Talking Pictures: Giancarlo Vulcano Scores “The Magic Lantern” (1903) by Georges Méliès
It’s 1903, the very beginning of motion pictures and everything is already there: the violence, the sexploitation and the whole show is run by a couple of clowns—it’s delightful. The film starts with director Su […]
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Sketchbook #16: Jessica Weiss
If you grew up in the time of ubiquitous wallpaper, either at home or in the houses of stuffy and stern relatives, you were already a painter in your mind. You could “see” other […]
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Magic! William Basinski at Le Poisson Rouge “The Last Symphony”
In October 2018 Basinski played On Time/ Out of Time as a fundraiser for The OutPost*. He presided as an almost motionless High Priest (he says High Priestess) and led the audience into deep space. […]
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Don’t Go Back to School!: “High Heel Beloved” a film by Leslie Thornton
If you have never seen Peggy and Fred in Hell, Leslie Thornton’s “lifetime project,” as she puts it— at 20 plus episodes and counting—then you have never seen anything like High Heel Beloved which […]
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Sketchbook #16: Margie Neuhaus
“I’m aware of a push and pull, between a kind of structural logic and more spontaneous gestures. The drawings are all records of decisions at various levels of awareness. My weavings and sculptures share […]