Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Guston at the MFA Boston

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 Since I saw the Guston show last Fall at the MFA Boston , I have been hoping to write a review of his work. Should be something easy to wri...
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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Giuliano's sister Pip's travels abroad bring back memories of France in the 70's and my introduction to Weltschmerz

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  I had hitchhiked my way up from the Midi to Alsace via Paris where I spent some time with Alix and then moved on to find more work as a fa...
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Saturday, April 2, 2022

Charles Giuliano's 150 years celebration and survey of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Charles Giuliano  This document of the 150 year history of the Museum of Fine Arts is mostly cobbled together from interviews by Charles Gi...
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Saturday, February 5, 2022

"Authority and Freedom" by Jed Perl

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  In his latest book “Authority and Freedom”, Perl establishes a paradigm that spells out a healthy antidote to the purpose for which art is...
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Saturday, December 18, 2021

The painting of Don Shambroom

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 Don Shambroom and his work looms large in my blogging that started in 2012. Mostly his opinions that have been shared with me either at vis...
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Friday, December 3, 2021

Miles Hall who previously interviewed me on my painting has written a sympathetic appraisal of my book on drawing and painting

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  Drawing and Painting: Perceptual theory as a basis for learning how to draw, by Martin G. Mugar    While Mugar never mentions the construc...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

Forge at Betty Cuningham and Dave Row in Rockland Maine

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Sunday, June 6, 2021

Is there a Connection between Materiality and Painting from the French Deconstructionists to Ha Chong Yuan

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Almost a year after I wrote my essay in 2013 on Zombie Abstraction I got an email from Mark Stone at https://henrimag.com/ that I had receiv...
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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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