What gets missed
A lot of people are talking about Holland Cotter’s recent article in the Times, about a return to real art values indicated by the current...Read More
Gerald Peters Gallery is dead; long li…eh, good riddance.
I already burned most of my bridges in Dallas, demonstrating absolutely zero aptitude for political correctness on this blog, so let me not pretend now...Read More
Winter Road Trip part 3: Yes Man
Denver was a great town to grow up in (or near), but I intuited early on (by, like, age 5) that the place was long...Read More
MLK Day, pomes ‘n such
I recently made passing comment on the pitfalls of art/mental jadedness. But jade is actually gorgeous. They used to wrap Chinese emperor corpses in it...Read More
Winter Road Trip, part 2
A week in Dallas was just enough to leave with the bloom still on the rose of my affection. We headed in one long day’s...Read More
Winter Road Trip 2008/09, part 1
I recently got back to Chicago from three weeks on the road. The semi-annual Christmas trip home to Denver, by way of Dallas for other...Read More
Punk vs “Big Mind”
Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da, died on Thanksgiving at his compound in Fiji, age 69. I had written about his adventures in art a few...Read More
War & Remembrance: Holzer v. Grigely
I just saw two shows at one museum that were nearly perfect foils for one another, each helping inform and reveal the strengths and weaknesses...Read More