Art… What I’m Reading: Artist Darrell Nettles 24 Jun 201825 Jun 2018 image above via http://darrellnettles.com/main.htm “I read a lot of poetry,” the artist Darrell Nettles tells me. “My current work is made from poems.” To be sure, there’s ample precedent of poets…
Art… What I’m Reading: Artist Michael Barnes 24 Jun 201824 Jun 2018 Featured image - "Communication" by Michael Barnes, via www.michaelbarnes.us/gallery1/images/Communication.jpg Michael Barnes (printmaker extraordinaire, and fittingly Professor of Printmaking at Northern Illinois University) works on paper, with a relatively limited color palette.…
Recommended What to Read, mid-December edition 12 Dec 201712 Dec 2017 Much good writing is out there online, just waiting for you to read it. The trouble? There's no way any one of us can catch it all, but here's a…
Lists… What I’m Reading: Artist Jeff Sylvester 4 Dec 2017 If at first glance you believe you’ve got a handle on what Jeff Sylvester is doing in his work and can afford to move along to the next artist, the…
Lists… What I’m Reading: Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner 26 Oct 201726 Oct 2017 Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam…
Commonplace… Commonplace #8 11 Oct 201711 Oct 2017 Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He…
Commonplace… Commonplace #7 3 Sep 2017 A lot of things had happened since that day. His luck had waxed and waned. Like a gambler he thought the equation even, though any plant, animal or mineral could…
Recommended… What I’m Reading: Writer Adam Hocshschild 29 Aug 201729 Aug 2017 There’s a moment early in Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending when a precocious student - he’s in his final year of high school - defines history (as…
Commonplace… Commonplace # 6 28 Aug 201728 Aug 2017 That day, in any case, I had the audacity of the shy. I came to talk to you in private. - Florence Noiville, Attachment
Commonplace… Commonplace #5 1 Jul 20171 Jul 2017 What Those Women Knew To remember those feelings is to create them, to invite them to enter the body and to narrate their materiality, to image them to silent music…
