Dinosaur tracks along the Purgatoire River, one of many photographs in Mark Ruwedel’s exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts Reasons to stop in at the Peabody Essex Museum are many, but here’s my favorite from my latest trip: “Imprints—Photographs by Mark Ruwedel.” At first glance I assumed these 41 images were an […]
Sailing Out Munchingly
Rayme 1, mixed media on canvas (to be included in my upcoming show at the Brooklyn Workshop Gallery) Quick Black Hole Spin Change I don’t like it— two massive Black Holes each twirling at the core of two merging galaxies get close enough to fuse together then quick as a wink just as they are […]
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Getting Closer to Wise
Is it a fence or a tree? Or both? A friend described her experience with a therapy technique that has helped her family tremendously. She distilled the approach down to 2 sentences: I am doing the best I can. I can do better. Learning to hold these two dialectical statements as true at the same […]
Upcoming Show at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery
This is a heads up about my upcoming exhibit opening in Brooklyn on Saturday June 26. I am very excited to be showing (mostly) new paintings along with the stunning sculptures of Rina Peleg. The artist reception starts at 7pm on the 26th—an event that is being described by gallery director Martine Bisagni rather provocatively […]
Book Markers: Stay Strong
Inside cover of David Foster Wallace’s annotated copy of Don DeLillo’s Players (Photo: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin) Thank you Sue Halpern for a great article on the New York Review of Books blog. Book markers, unite!! When I saw David Foster Wallace’s annotations at the top of the blog page, […]
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Art Making Meme of the Day
“Work of Art” judges (Photo: Bravo/Barbara Nitke) I finally saw the first episode of “Work of Art”, referenced in the post below and being discussed, dissected and deconstructed on Jerry Saltz’s Facebook page as well as countless art blogs. Having just returned from a conference on how social and mobile media can be employed for […]
Fascination or Feeling: Pick One
“Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” contestants, judges, host and mentor. (Photo: Bravo) Sebastian Smee, a most thoughtful and open-minded art critic who writes for the Boston Globe, has written a review of the oft-discussed, highly charged topic of Bravo’s new reality art series, “Work of Art.” For many of us, making art couldn’t […]
Going with Gist Rather than Speed
It’s inevitable. You just can’t ignore the fact that you used to run more effortlessly. That you used to acquire new information rapidly. That new data went into a file that was always open (as opposed to the vague middle-age hope that you can get “same day service” on a search for something you know […]
Lost and Found
Because I hold books in such high regard, finding one quite by chance feels serendipitously ordained. I always wonder, is the book lost or intentionally left behind just so I could find it? Sometimes it feels like a mystical encounter with a non-sentient being. Beach houses, small hotels and B&Bs are all good places for […]
As American as Baseball and Theater
I have written on this blog about several of the productions from Diane Paulus’ first season as artistic director at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge: The tantalizingly beguiling Sleep No More from UK-based theater company Punchdrunk; the stunningly brilliant Gatz, an unforgettable verbatim performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; and Paradise […]