Loren Munk comments on “The Bowery Bums”
Hey Cathy, Just thought I’d send a brief note of appreciation for your very insightful and articulate review of “On The Bowery” at Talking Pictures. I like your [...]
Letters to the Editor
A Letter about The Collector #10: Su Friedrich / Fred Tomaselli
I love this writing Su! How many times has someone regretted not acting on their instinct, even if rightfully so regarding financial circumstances…but the painting [...]
Letter about the shepherdesses of lyra
Finally read your poem! “Stories that we tell about ourselves To the lyre of self-instrumentalization While knives are floating over the flensing deck Dissention [...]
Comment on Painting Now and Forever III (but not if it goes on like this!)”
By the “painter friend” quoted in the review: What a shot of refreshing reality! I am so SO pleased you decided to write…. I’m honored that our conversation [...]
Comment on:Pleasure and Pain: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
CNQ’s review of Kerry James Marshall’s amazing retrospective at the Met Breuer is so offensive that at first I honestly thought it was a badly executed joke about [...]
Comment on Mercedes Matter: Early and Late
John comments: Simply the *dumbest* attempt at a review I’ve ever tried to read.Why not do some research on the Artist; her influences; her peers; her career; her [...]
David Brody explains his “perspective”
My paintings are not isometric. I use chalk lines (without chalk) to make perspective grids, usually two-point, with the horizon line above the top of the painting. I [...]
Letter from Tim Spelios
I dig the three drawings you sketched from “before disembarking”. It’s like hearing a version of a song written for sax, bass, and drums played on piano. [...]
Letter about “Nice Weather”
weather/whether is white open or blindingly blunt? is black shut or sharp dreaming? when black helpers are green & purple & white helpers are as yellow as they are [...]
Letter from Meg Hitchcock
Well that wasn’t so bad. The review is more about you than me; I was afraid that you were going to bust me on not knowing squat about religion or God or anything else [...]