large detail of one of the four walls of artist-donated art installed at Momenta last week Tonight is the night of the Momenta Art annual benefit party, and we've just learned that there are still...

untitled (sea moss) 2009 No, it's not Ireland, Cornwall, Nova Scotia or Iceland. It's the Brooklyn shore of the East River just below the Manhattan Bridge. I took this picture late Saturday afte...

It seems to me like it's been around forever, but today is actually the seventh anniversary of this blog. For those of us who follow these things, this is also the anniversary of what turned out t...

untitled (blue ties) 2009 Waiting for the #7 train at the 74 Street - Broadway station in Queens this afternoon, scorning the more obvious idea of going for a shot of the complex Manhattan skyline...

deleting the offense: first the white paint, then the message, in a classic font of course Sometimes it seems that the canker of commercial advertising won't stop until it's succeeded in plasterin...

James Hyde Wave 2009 acrylic on digital print 32: x 42.75" [view of framed work in installation, including shadows] James Hyde Recline 2009 acrylic on digital print on stretched linen 70" x 115.5...

[detail] Since the middle of March Barry and I have been assembling posts for a very modest new site, "Hoggard/Wagner Food Blog", which we want to use to document, mostly for our own use, some of ...

the fire this time: the towers are are forever collapsing up above 116th Street Each time I head uptown for something going on at the Episcopal Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, almost a...

Louise Fishman Berm 2006 oil on canvas 12" x 16" [detail] Louise Fishman Arctic Sea 2007 acrylic on canvas 72" x 65" [detail] Louise Fishman Heart On Fire 2007 acrylic on canvas 66" x 3...

I hope this image doesn't make the blog look too sentimental, especially coming after my last post (a picture of some yellow spring flowers in front of a blue wall), but today, or some other day cl...