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Narrative Painting Part II: Kyle Staver at Kent Fine Art
Staver creates a palette so disciplined and toned down that the light glaring or filtering in, catching an edge of a knife or the side of a goat or a swan or a cardinal’s breast […]
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Narrative Painting Part I: Dan Schein’s “Where Do We Dump the Bodies?”
I wonder if other women or even children are beginning to think that adult males are becoming a little too comfortable with the role of the anti-hero? The hopeless, hapless guy who doesn’t know how […]
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“I Got Plenty of Nuttin”: The Met’s Financial Woes and the Age of Digital Reproduction
As a result of too-rapid expansion, unforeseen (?) interest payments due, and “ambitious” rebranding (among other things) the Met, like so many corporations, overstretched. The administration is therefore pursuing the standard corporate “solutions” we know […]
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My Ear Comes Off!
What next? Isis offers stuffed Mohammed? The Catholic Church sells plush Crucifixion with detachachable nails and a rubber hammer? Jesus wept. – CNQ to read more of What Meets the Eye
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NOMENCoLorATURE at Studio 10
Paul D’Agostino’s latest beautiful effort to bring painters together on hot summer days opened last Saturday and can be viewed again on Saturday and Sunday (8/13 and 8/14) from 2-6. (Yours truly presiding on Saturday […]
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Philip Guston: The In-Between Years at Hauser and Wirth
To begin with, intense satisfaction. We knew he got from point A to point B and now we know how and can confirm it by checking the dates to figure out the progression. […]