I celebrate the onset of the holidays every year with a long crawl through Cary Grant movies, so called The Twelve Days of Cary Grant. There are dozens of exceptional movies to draw from and it’s an opportunity to indulge in the golden age of the cinema and share a…
Last month, I had the pleasure of creating a catalog for the Hsia I-Fu retrospective running over the Fall season at M. Sutherland Fine Arts. I never had the chance to meet Hsia but working with his intricate wonderlands over the past five years has been very rewarding. It was...
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I was very fortunate to have worked with Lennart Anderson for over ten years as his rep and gallerist producing a number of exhibitions and catalogs. Fortunately he has seen a crop of young painters carrying a torch for him since his passing. And Lennart certainly created paintings that deserved...
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Out tearing up Bradley Tweed during foliage days. Stopping to enjoy the vista before it turns to high rises again.
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Wherever the heart takes you , surely the legs must follow. Took this great autumnal shot heading up the Bradley / Tweed climb.
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The Armory Show has never been 'cool'. At least, not in its current incarnation. When it moved to the piers from a seedy hotel off-Gramercy, in nowhere Manhattan, it cast off the shackles of 'interesting' for the formal march towards profitability. At the westside piers, The Armory Show became the...
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Tonight it begins! ‘Twelve Days of Cary Grant’ begins tonight at 9pm est with ‘The Awful Truth’. Chill the gin and pop those cuffs. Let the magic begin. Looks like I’m off Twitter this year; follow along on FB. #12dCG
Originally published – JUNE 26, 2005 Robert Smithson, "Terminal Area Concepts," Tibbets, Abbot, McCarthy, and Stratton, c.1966 Robert Smithson’s distant, mythic, Spiral Jetty is his most familiar artwork. However, it was nearly eclipsed by an earlier and far more commercial proposal to develop the “Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport”...
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Originally published – JULY 04, 2005 The Summer issue of "Art on Paper" displays the fruit of a simple experiment. A young staffer (either real or fictive) sends a letter to a bunch of artists explaining the problem of being young and new to New York, with many of the...
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Originally published – MAY 25, 2005 Now grossly over-magnified, marketing is pivotal in exaggerating choice in western culture. It’s a tired refrain to remind that branders and advertisers gorge you on implausible and improbable variants of things you already own or likely never needed — a buffet of attrition culminating...
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This is the view “back”, after little racing bike with 23mm road tires and I fought in vain against a leaf strewn hiking path in an attempt to find the paved “bike path”. The hiking path dead ended and me and all the carbon fiber in the world had…
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