Continue Reading Leaves, Folded If Nari Ward, who I introduced yesterday, is a master of conceptual installations, Sam Gilliam stands out with his abstractions. I say…
Continue Reading If only… “If only I could….” must be one of the most frequently uttered sentence fragments of this constraint- and fear-ruled year. If only…
Continue Reading Doing the Heavy Lifting Who should do the heavy lifting? Preferably someone else other than yourself, it seems, when you look at how people generally are…
Continue Reading The Dream World and the Real World are the same. There I was mid- afternoon, back to my old haunts, this time Oaks Bottom. Looking one way, a fall landscape of etherial…
Continue Reading Seeking a Model You surely know those days when everything, even the most innocuous bit, takes on a dark halo, a portent, a trigger for…
Continue Reading Kristallnacht, 2020 Yesterday, November 9th, marked the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a date when Germany and Jews around the world commemorate the November progrom(s) against…
Continue Reading Thoughts in Yellow I figured we’d celebrate the wave of relief felt by more than half of this country with a color that stands for…
Continue Reading “Finding immortality, one pumpkin at a time.” “Finding immortality, one pumpkin at a time,” was reportedly uttered by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk in response to the work…
Continue Reading Happy Birthday, Eugene Debs One of the most remarkable historical figures on the American Left was born to French immigrant parents on this day in 1855…
Continue Reading November Fourth, 2020 As much as I want to provide some sense of relief, or encourage some optimism, I am hard pressed. I am writing…
