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Sunday, September 7, 2014
Jed Perl's review of the Koons Retrospective in "The New York Review of Books"
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Jed Perl continues his quixotic tilting at wind mills in his latest review of the Koons phenomenon.That something must be said to deflat...
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Friday, November 16, 2012
I published this on my blog awhile ago.Charles Giuliano thought this was a good sequel to his critique of MFA programs today
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"Impressions of France",1995 Museum of Fine Arts,Boston It was picked up by Karen Wright at "Modern Painter" for an is...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Chuck Close passes away at 81(originally written in 2005 and republished in 2011)
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CLOSE Part of the urban legend surrounding Chuck Close is the rationale he gave for his stylistic move to figuration upon hi...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
In rereading this essay I was struck by the author's reference to "willed vulgarity".I think what she is refering to was my conscious decision to accept our basic human condition of irrationality and raw will.It is something picked up stylistically from the late Guston.We must start from "the cruel chaotic base" before we can pretend to have any"raffinement".
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Camp on Canvas: Martin Mugar “My painting is about the desire that underlies the facts,” writes Martin ...
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