What the Buddhist art from the caves of Dunhuang and a Stuart Davis mural say about art out of context.
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”— Julio Cortázar In The Work of Art author Adam Moss footnotes an intriguing query: is there a connection between the game mind and the...
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow—the coup de grâce—for the painter as well as for the picture.
—Picasso
"I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe...
In 2011 at the first artMKRT, renegade spin off of the SF Fine Art Fair, I was instantly (and blissfully) seduced by the mighty sirens of Ian Ingram's monumental self portraits. The two on display—Forgotten Offerings and Pierrot—were startling achievements in the...
A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar stood under the open sky, after WWI, in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of forces of destructive torrents and explosions, was the...
