Category Archives: Art

JOCKO WEYLAND “Vagabond” Opening

July 13, 2017 – 12:47 am

JOCKO WEYLAND “Vagabond” July 13 – August 18, 2017 opening: Thursday, July 13th, 6-8pm Metal and leaves, concrete and plastic, trees and trains, scrap heaps and decaying drive-ins, parking lots and telephone wires, luminescent polluted water and cranes, bridges, overgrown tennis courts, and public housing in the distance, Everything is something as the most ordinary […]

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Homer’s GULF STREAM

July 2, 2017 – 3:07 pm

At the debut of the 20th Century the painter Winslow Homer holidayed on the Gulf Stream. Florida. Cuba. And the Caribbean. According to Wikipedia he read McCabe’s Curse, a Bahamian tale about a British Captain McCabe who in 1814 was robbed by thieves, hired a small boat in hopes of reaching a nearby island, but […]

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LSD Surreal

March 12, 2017 – 11:08 pm

My father and mother took their children to view Pablo Picasso paintings during the 60s. He inspected one drawing and said that I was as skilled as the Spaniard, since my grammar school war paintings had won honorary mention at the diocesan art show in 1964. Picasso at that age was studying figure drawing and […]

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The Genius Of Picasso

March 12, 2017 – 11:03 pm

Some artists are good at everything.

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Pablo Was No Asshole

March 12, 2017 – 6:34 pm

Pablo Picasso’s career spanned decades, highlighted by GUERNICA depicting the fascist bombing of the Basque city. I saw the anti-war painting once. Maybe at the Modern Art Museum in New York. His ‘blue’ period painting were easier to hang on a wall than his Goya knock-off, but I’d love an Picasso, for the only valuable […]

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