two cult leaders, getting along famously Why does this photo of McCain's meeting yesterday with Tenzin Gyatso not surprise me? But then, maybe it really should have surprised me: "I hate the go...

Louise Fishman Angry Louise 1973 acrylic, charcoal and pencil on paper 26.5" x 40.25" Louise Fishman Angry Bianca 1973 acrylic on paper 26.5" x 40.25" Louise Fishman Angry Bertha 1973 acrylic o...

The building was a very dignified mid-nineteenth-century Red Hook Brooklyn warehouse/factory built on the waterfront with local stone. The brick-surrounds of the old windows on the street side had...

there goes the neighborhood (single-family houses visit midtown) How many more suburban mini-estates do we really need? How many more can we bear? It was a long time ago, and the details are a ...

Bruce Conner Untitled 1960 mixed media, pearls, nylon, mesh, wire, etc. 20" x 24.5" x 2.5" I included this image in the first post I did about work I'd seen at the 2005 Armory Show. I remember h...

Barack Obama plans to expand Bush's "faith-based" initiative. That just about does it for me. The flag pin he decided to add to his lapel should have been a warning, but I really found myself di...

sign inside the window immediately adjacent to the front door of the gallery on 25th Street They have no idea what they're talking about. Once one of the most important galleries in the country, ...

Joseph Hart Vija No. 9 2007 acrylic on paper 22" x 30" Some time ago I wrote about a show of Forth Estate prints at Klaus von Nichtssagend, and I included an image of a work by Joseph Hart. Of co...

Barry and I were in Christopher Brooks's studio last week. Unfortunately the images I've uploaded here can only begin to describe the work we saw. They start with a black enamel panel which is rel...

[detail] It was a great studio visit. Along with the pleasure of some fine work, there was the pleasure of conversation with an animated artist (actually two or three) and some other good peop...