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Talking About Art Now

I spent today in a university classroom.  This is not my natural habitat.  In fact, I was so out of place I might as well have been a rattlesnake on a New York City sidewalk.  I was doing a friend … Continue reading

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New Work

The incorporation of organic media into the work has opened some new doors in my metal sculpture.  These are some of the pieces I have been talking about in my last few posts.  To see the difference between these works … Continue reading

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ART = What?

It is almost 3 AM. Snow was forecast, but instead, a sloppy rain, the hint of winter coming. Slowly. I spent the holiday in California. On a beach, by a pool, in the arms of my love. The first such … Continue reading

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Dead or alive

I am thinking tonight about Charles Bukowski, Janice Joplin, freedom. Freedom to write, to sing, to walk away. Bukowski said, “An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way. An artist is a man who … Continue reading

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Complexity

Home today with the beginnings of a cold, I finished a book called “The Age of the Unthinkable,” by Joshua Cooper Ramo. It dealt with complexity, old ways of thinking, and the absolutely improbable declaration that contending with, and managing … Continue reading

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Time for a new arts movement?

It surprises and angers me that the art establishment places so much value on the meaningless manipulation of material as if the application of media in new or different ways can, by itself render the media into art. New does … Continue reading

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