Letters to the Editor

Comment on:Pleasure and Pain: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”

September 25, 2017

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 the White Oppression Complex. Each paragraph made my jaw drop lower with [...]

Comment on Mercedes Matter: Early and Late

May 30, 2017

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 importance in the Art World. In fact, don’t bother–you [...]

David Brody explains his “perspective”

January 10, 2017

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 don’t work out true perspective recession (checkerboard floors, telephone [...]

Letter from Tim Spelios

October 15, 2016

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. Thanks, Tim This letter is a response to our recent pencil review of [...]

Letter about “Nice Weather”

April 26, 2016

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 blue whom do we woo? Amy’s picture* reminds me of Mycenae a [...]

Letter from Meg Hitchcock

February 9, 2016

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 (which I don’t, but I try to keep my ignorance to myself). That I [...]

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