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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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Art & Fear

Monday, April 20, 2009

Among artists over the years, I’ve often heard mention of a little book called Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, by David Bayles & Ted Orland (1993, Image Continuum Press).  The title never appealed to me, but the book kept rising to the surface, one of those things artists recommend [...]

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Noémie Lafrance: Home

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Today I saw the new experimental performance created by Brooklyn-based artist Noémie Lafrance, Home: The Body as Place. Lafrance is determined to give her audience new and fresh experiences, and has pursued this goal by creating dance for unusual sites, including in the ruins of a vast Robert Moses-era public pool in Brooklyn and on [...]

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Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I’ll be trying my first video post tomorrow.  Today, just a quick note about a film I saw today at a special screening at the Guggenheim Museum.  Inner Voice is Babeth VanLoo’s documentary about composer/vocalist/choreographer/director Meredith Monk.  Monk has long been an inspiration to me.  As an artist she has done her own thing in [...]

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Confabulator

Thursday, March 19, 2009

I support my art and keep it free by doing a lot of technical and visual work for others – video production, photography, projection and audiovisual work.  I know a lot of people in the creative fields, so I’ve made a specialty of working with visual and performing artists.  Often it’s fascinating work, and it [...]

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