Monday, August 13, 2012

Jim Falck and Addison Parks,artists

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Jim Falck Addison Parks Art at its best reflects on its own optical origins. Even when it appears to be breaking away in...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

An interesting movement centered around Leland Bell that still exists in enclaves here and there in academe .

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Addison Parks has this on artdeal with more comprehensive illustrations Helion Leland Bell self-portrait In a discussion...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Champing at the bit to take a bite out of the Champ.

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"To be Looked at....." 1918  Duchamp studies are the terrain of some of the brightest minds writing about art today and his...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Julian and Julian

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My great uncle was an anomaly on the Armenian side of the family, that came to this country at the beginning of the 20thc. The family was w...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Link to an essay I wrote for Addison Parks's show at Crieger-Dane in 2000

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http://www.bowstreetgallery.com/Addison_Parks/Catalogue_Essay.html
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Addison has reprised a conversation I had with him from 1999

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A Painting from the show at Crieger-Dane on Newbury St Boston Link: Art Deal Magazine  or read it here: ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

My review of Cosima Spender's film"Without Gorky"

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--> “Without Gorky” a documentary about the family of Arshile Gorky made by his granddaughter Cosima Spender was shown this...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A great example of writing that let's things be without killing the subject with labels.

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http://artdealmagazine.blogspot.com/
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Addison Parks reassessment of his Forrest Bess essay from 30 years ago

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link
Saturday, March 31, 2012

I discovered this painting I did in the 90's on line .It had been in auction in Provincetown last year.

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http://www.bakkerart.com/2011_Sampler_Auction.html Scroll down to the M's.It did not sell according to the text file.It was from a ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

There seems to be a momentary revival of interest in Forrest Bess.Roberta Smith wrote about him in the NY Times.Here is Addison Parks from 1981 in a much more insightful essay

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http://www.forrestbess.com/ Compare Parks to Roberta Smith's need to put Bess into the context of the Minimali...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Elaboration of a recent essay from my blog appears on Berkshire Fine Arts

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Berkshire Fine Arts                                              A work by Don Shambroom in the Met
Sunday, March 4, 2012

After Becketts's struggles during WW11,fighting with the resistance and trying to not be caught by the Nazi's,a change came over his work.Some called it a sort of passivity.I think openess would be a better term,closer to Meister Eckhardt's Gelassenheit.This quote points to what happened within him.

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At the close of this long, impassioned letter of March 9, 1949, Beckett declares himself “no longer capable of writing in any sust...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Starting with Anthony Powell and ending with De Kooning via Hegel

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  Several weeks ago I was invited to lunch by a good friend,Addison Parks, who asked several mutual acquaintan...
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