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Seeing Red: Matisse's The Red Studio At The Museum Of Modern Art
On a recent trip to New York and its summer environs, I was struck by what was in some ways a small exhibition centered on just one painting, quite well known, that is more than 110 years old and that has been part of a museum collection for more than 75 years: Matisse, The Red […]
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Auschwitz: On Jerry Stahl's "Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust"
Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the HolocaustONE TIME, AT A friend’s 50th birthday party, I appeared in a black unitard and heels, cued up the music, and performed Beyoncé’s dance to “Single Ladies.” I did the bit because I knew it was foolproof: just the […]
Of Madeleines And Butchery: Paris Police 1900
I”ve been spending a good amount of time in Paris 1900. For most of this year, my online reading group of high school friends has been making our way through Proust (The Modern Library Revised English Edition) in this the centennial of Marcel Proust’s death on November 18, 1922.In keeping with this theme, I”ve just […]
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Shantell Martin: Where The Line Takes You
“I always thought being an artist,” Shantell Martin told me recently in her Los Angeles studio, “allowed you to do anything you want. It’s a freedom to create whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.”That is certainly true for Martin whose life and career has never followed a straight line. Martin has found […]
The Timeless Shimmer Of Beatrice Wood
Sometimes a gallery show can remind you not just of an artist but of a rare personage.This is the case with Beatrice Wood: Drawings, Prints, Ceramics, which opened on September 21 at L.A. Louver in Venice, CA., and runs through October 29, 2022. I am sorry I didn”t get to this exhibition sooner, but it’s […]
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brainToo much love drives a man insaneYou broke my willBut what a thrillGoodness gracious, great balls of fire!Jerry Lee Lewis, the enfant terrible of Rock “n Roll, one of Sun Records million dollar quarter, the rocker whose career was momentarily cancelled when it was revealed his third […]