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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Biomorphic Glass: Chihuly in the Bronx

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dale Chihuly is one of those artists who’s a little too popular to be cool, the Tiffany of our time.  But his work is stunning in its scale and originality, and it particularly shines when it’s exhibited in a biological context, as it was in the summer of 2006 at the New York Botanical Garden [...]

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Anatomical Flux

Monday, May 18, 2009

Last week I attended “Sketch Night” at “Bodies: The Exhibition“, at the South Street Seaport in New York.  This is one of those exhibits of real human cadavers, preserved by a process called plastination or polymer preservation, and variously dissected for educational display to the general public.  The Sketch Nights give artists access to the [...]

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Raw Urgency: Picasso at Gagosian

Saturday, May 16, 2009

On Friday (my birthday) I went to see Mosqueteros, the exhibit of paintings and prints from Picasso’s last decade, at Gagosian’s spacious Chelsea gallery on West 21st Street in New York, curated by Picasso’s biographer, John Richardson.  When he was in his eighties, Picasso accelerated his already prodigious productiveness, creating hundreds of large oils, as [...]

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Painting with Light

Sunday, May 10, 2009

The word “photography” is derived from greek roots literally meaning “writing with light”.  A light-sensitive chemical emulsion, or, these days, a light-sensitive silicon chip, is altered when it is exposed to light.  An image focused through a lens, with an exposure timed by shutter, is only one possible way of using this process of writing [...]

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Copyright Violation

Friday, May 8, 2009

I just discovered my three most recent Drawing Life posts reproduced whole hog, without attribution or links, on a stupid blog site with a misspelled name.  I suppose this is the risk we all take making content available on the internet, but let me take this opportunity to reassert and reinforce the copyright notice that [...]

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