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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da, died on Thanksgiving. I had written about his adventures in art a few months back. He apparently keeled over from...Read More

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