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Notes on Abstraction
In advance of a meeting next week with friends to talk about Abstraction, I created a note file* and dumped thoughts as they occurred to me during my day to day. Then, I arranged them thematically. A rough classification. Here...
Matisse & Modigliani: Trip to Philly (with Steve Shane)
Steve Shane texted. Steve said let's go to Philly. It will be fun, he said... (see Note #2) It was indeed fun. Steve reminds me of Henry Taylor, watching him chat people up, almost like he's flirting with them....
On Writing
A quick note about how I'm starting to default, pertaining to writing in this weblog with notations: I enjoy writing. I've been told that I'm a good writer. When I am told that my writing is good, I blush and...
Revolutions
Highly recommended: Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. You'll find it in your favorite podcast app. Mike Duncan is a historian and author of several projects, including this podcast series that I've tunneled into recently. At 300 episodes and counting, Duncan...
What Strange Times
What happens when the firewall burns through? TLDR / Abstract: The firewall: Art is art and politics is politics and sometimes political art is art but finally politics, like life, fades... while art remains long. This blog is about...
Blender Report
Last summer I wrote a friend, reporting that I had started learning Blender during the pandemic-lockdown-quarantine-isolation-prolonged-hysteria. He was a perfect touchstone since he's an animator for a huge legendary movie studio in SoCal. As for software, I've focused on...
Art and Politics
Art and politics are mutually exclusive realms. While art may care for politics, politics doesn't really give a damn about art. In the broad, diffuse, Aristotelian sense; man is / people are political animals because living together is an...
Where is the love? Part Two.
(Reference: The Gray Market: Why Art Dealers Need to Focus on New Audiences or Risk Irrelevance (and Other Insights) Consider the sobering fact that while there has always existed more artists producing art objects in the world than there...
Temporal and Atemporal...
Temporal and Atemporal, Museums, Pinterest and Cabinets of Curiosities Much of my anticipation of visiting the newly renovated MoMA was shaped by the debate concerning the curatorial direction of the museum going forward. Peter Plagens wrote in the Wall...
AIRCAT 2019: Alberto's Baptism
I'm not sure what to call what Alberto Barcia did this summer. Yes, he certainly painted paintings. But he also has this tendency to... perform? Well, it's not a performance per se, since there wasn't an audience to bounce...
AIRCAT Inaugural Week
Last Fall, Gerard "Gerry" Smulevich and I crafted an artist studio program for Tossa de Mar, Catalunya, Spain. Gerry and I used to teach together back in the 90's at Woodbury University's Architecture Program (in Burbank, California) under the...
AIR.CAT
A big chunk of this fall upon returning from Spain was spent in a collaboration with my old friend Gerard (Gerry) Smulevich, creating an artist residency in Tossa that will premier next summer 2019 if all works out well....
For Your Consideration: Apprehensions
I found this video via a recent Quite Frankly podcast, an interesting look at what might be in store for us in the near future. Check it out. Here's Keiichi Matsuda's website. And this is a behind the scenes look...
Instagram Reviews
Jordan Wolfson @davidzwirner First approach: something like the 2001 Space Odyssey monolith. $ shot. Soft wall padding surround. Extravagant space allocation = theatre = retail floor area = $. Have a seat. HAL: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I...
Website, Finally.
The past few weeks have been consumed with the spring art fairs, friends visiting NYC with concomitant gallery tours, all fabulous but also with little time to document and reflect all of this in the blog. During this time,...
Isthmus Aesthetics?
The word torpor best describes the current state of the art world. Lassitude, sluggishness, inertia*. We have been lingering at this impasse for far too long. How long? I figure that the beginning of the 90's was the end...
Port of Tossa de Mar
Last year, Tossa was presented with a plan to build a port. The locals didn't like it, and counter propaganda was unleashed, warning of the reckless plunder of the coastline. It described the port as bait, a distraction concealing...
Desktop Universe
In my previous blogpost, I commented on the debate between formal and conceptual art. The crux of my argument was a defense of the conceptual underpinnings of formalism is now well supported by neuroscience but not very well appreciated...
Review Panel
Here in NYC, the Fall season started with ArtCritical's Review Panel, hosted by David Cohen at the Brooklyn Public Library. Here are the links to the shows under review, check them out and you can coordinate what you think with...
Everything is Everything
Back in February of this year, Lily Lampe wrote a very interesting article for the Brooklyn Rail about painting and the "painterly". Intelligent and interesting, the article is a tour de force. She had compared and contrasted three recent exhibitions...
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