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A Remembrance: Sarah Wells (June 6, 1950-June 6, 1998)
This post is inspired by two aspects of the life of the artist. First, friendships are very important to artists, perhaps because the nature of being an artist often includes necessary aloneness in the...
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September 5, 1981: prehistory of a history
After I had completed my first major read-through of the diaries and papers of the painter Jack Tworkov in preparation for editing them into a book of collected writings, Jack’s daughter Helen Tworkov...
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Youthfulness in Old Age
Two painting exhibitions currently across the street from each other on West 25th street challenge any notions one might still harbor about the greater value of being “younger than Jesus.” By some...
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Day by Day in the Studio 13: August 15
Tomorrow August 16, the exhibition Abstract Marriage: Sculpture by Ilya Schor and Resia Schor opens at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. This exhibition brings to fruition a project I first...
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Craft and Process: Tools and “wild ‘reserves’ for enlightened knowledge.”
I begin with a picture of me, but one where I am only an incidental subject. I am sitting in the studio of Chaim Gross at the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation in Greenwich Village during an event on...
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Pier 92
I usually start my annual obligatory (imposed on me by the society I occupy, would not necessarily go otherwise) visit to the Armory Show at Pier 92 (the more intimately scaled “classic” side) before...
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