Friday, January 15, 2021

Outside the Walls, a meditation on the contemporary scene

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 One thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future. Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all se...
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Monday, October 5, 2020

Divagations on Jed Perl's second volume of "Calder"

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As I began to think about finishing my reading and reviewing Jed Perl’s monumental second volume of the life of Calder, the art world was in...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Photographer Joseph Podlesnik and Provisional Painting

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There is an old Maine locution “You can’t get there from here” that is a response to a question from a lost driver getting directions in ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

As good as it gets on the internet (Or the Three Penny Author)

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I put my blogposts on Medium, a site that promotes writing on the web. My writing rarely gets any feedback as adjudged from the dearth of ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Artists without faces. Or what do you hang your hat on? Jean Gabin, Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz and John Currin.

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                         Artists without faces.                Or what do you hang your hat on?           Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz an...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

UNC-Greensboro Professor Michael Ananian reviews my book on Amazon

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“Drawing and Painting” should be read by anyone who cares about the current state of art school education and its future. Mr. Mugar’s trea...
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