I’ve spent 20 years of Sunday afternoons listening to the radio broadcast “The Glen Jones Radio Programme featuring X.Ray Burns”, from WFMU at 91.1fm out of New Jersey, come rain or shine–including frigid Sundays listening in piles of snow on my roof, with my foot jiggling the antenna and drinking…
Here’s a glimpse of the catalog I did for M. Sutherland Fine Art’s exhibition a few months back: Hsu Kuohuang: Views of Taroko Gorge. the entire catalog is downloadable at: Hsu Kuohuang: Views of Taroko Gorge Hsu’s work is incredible and a pleasure to have worked with.
Pousette-Dart was the youngest of the big AbEx painters. As such, he was able to live beyond the gravity of the hype and take that manic and energetic (action) painting and retreat into a sort of existential minimalism. Pace Gallery, in one of its many Chelsea galleries, has created an…
Rescued from the sands of time, Matthew Marks Gallery offers a brilliant exhibition of a quiet unsung Long Island artist Albert York. Incredible paintings.
Went to the Morgan Library for a final visit at the Rousseau show again. Snuck some photos for humanity’s sake. Details to follow if I get a copy of the catalog before the cease-and-desist letters pour in. Rousseau is one of my favorites. He’s a contemporary of Corot’s and a…
Every December I go on a Cary Grant binge. There are a number of reasons for this but mostly because it makes me happy and they are tremendous movies. Doing so at the onset of the holiday rush helps to frame the season for me: with a dash of élan,…
The Harlem Meer is a large-ish 11 acre manmade lake on the north-east corner of Central Park. As it’s visible from Central Park North/110th street and 5th avenue it has been a large part of my New York experience through years of commuting. My first experience of Christo’s Gates was…
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin took a fifteen year hiatus from still lifes. instead doing mostly domestic genre works, many that he is famous now for. his return to still life would be concurrent with a royal pension and residency at the Louvre. access to far wealthier objet d’art would change the…
Making compositional and value studies of masterworks helps you to train your eye to dissect them and analyze them. In this first offering, i’m looking at the great 18th Century French master, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Specifically, i’m looking at his still life work and below are eight of the quick studies…
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