What Meets the Eye

Sifting “Thru the Rabbit Hole” at Sideshow Gallery “Nation IV”

January 31, 2016

Walking the quiet weekday streets of Williamsburg, a bit stunned from a marital battle more pitched than usual, I turned into Sideshow Gallery’s “Thru the Rabbit Hole,” the 15th annual loosely uncurated show of all the painters of NYC. Or [...]

Something Wonderful and Something Awful

January 18, 2016

The wonderful: A series of drawings and poems about a boy looking for a wayward ox. He searches, he wrestles, “With all my energy, I seize the ox,” the ox struggles and charges and disappears “and there he stays, deep in the mist.” Later the [...]

Meg Hitchcock and My Religious Intolerance

January 14, 2016

A story (but where did I read it?) about two lamas sitting on two stones by the campfire one night. A lion roars and one of the lamas jumps up and the other one says, “Oh, so you still have that?” The next morning the lama who jumped gets up [...]