Every once in a while a book comes along that is so provocative and powerful that it becomes the epicenter of a major change in thinking, both personally and in the world at large. I’m sure you have your list which may or may not overlap with my own, but here are three I have […]
Fresh Coat
Unfolding If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history, No gradual growth of consciousness Beneath the land grabs and forced migrations, The bought elections, the betrayal of trust By party faction in the name of progress— What about spirit in the personal realm Unfolding slowly inside us, so slowly That our best days seem […]
The Tuttle Bump
Richard Tuttle, “Village VI, No. I, 10,” 2005. Illustration board, mat board, acrylic, pine, glue, corrugated cardboard, paper, wire, marker, graphite, glue sticks, and nails, 14 x 11 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches. Photo by Cathy Carver. Chris Maybach‘s film, Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist, was made in 2005 on behalf of the San […]
Angle of Repose
Wingate Barn, site of the Winter Studio gallery in Wenham View of the gardens from the gallery Last weekend we did the real life installation of the Unchained show that appeared here at the end of the summer. The late fall light was clear and crisp, and visitors to the Winter Studio gallery were a […]
Going for Depth, Not Distortion
Nooma 2, mixed media on wood panel Some people are gifted with an ability to sit with a political or ideological opponent and have a meaningful conversation. I’m not one of those, which is probably true of most of us. We choose to spend most of our time with my like-minded tribespeople. It’s an easier […]
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The Far Horizon
Kellin and Sean Nelson, newly married (photo courtesy of David Webb and Kris Bell) Just back from my daughter Kellin’s wedding in Hawaii. It feels silly to try to encapsulate a week’s worth of joy and intensity so I am not going there. Even for those of us who are not ceremonial or sentimental (I […]
Off the Grid (in a Wonderful Way)
Kellin and Sean in Kailua We are in Hawaii celebrating the wedding of our daughter Kellin. I will be back to Slow Muse after November 7.
The Grand Piano is Gone
The Pegasus Schimmel Grand Piano by Luigi Colani: Everyday concepts and objects are always open for reinvention, and no one did that better than Steve Jobs. It has been weeks since Steve Jobs passed on. Like so many others who have come to think of their Apple devices as virtual appendages, I had the distinct […]
De Koo in Perpetua
Paintings by Colescott on the left and Ramos on the right: Installation view at the new Rose Art Museum One more addendum to two themes from earlier this week—the reopening of the Rose Art Museum (here), and my albeit very personal response (which has become, over the years, increasingly disapproving) to the Woman series on […]
The Rose Reopens: Art Trumps Money
The Rose Museum at Brandeis University reopened Last night the previously disenfranchised and much beleaguered Rose Art Museum on the Brandeis campus reopened with much fanfare, a celebration being called The Rose Art Museum at fifty. In spite of a torrential rainstorm, the museum was chockablock with donors, students, artists, patrons and, specially introduced to […]