Category Archives: Art

No Tattoos in Heaven

January 2, 2017 – 2:19 am

After my best friend drowned in Sebago Lake in 1960, I became a non-believer. Chaney was a good boy and no God would have let him die. My atheism was a secret. I was an altar boy at Sunday Mass. My mother prayed that I might take the cloth as a priest or at the […]

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Thomas Cole’s View

November 11, 2016 – 5:41 pm

Thomas Cole painted scores of landscapes during mid-1800s. Some of them are the view from his studio in the town of Catskill. I’ve stood on the porch of his house at Cedar Farm. The vista remains the same. Splendid any time of the year.

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Tears Of Kusama – Modern Musee In Stockholm

September 29, 2016 – 3:46 pm

This week in Stockholm Modern Musee Yayoi Kusama exhibited a collection of works from 2009 to the present. At the opening of her show the 87 year-old painter said, ” “My life has been polished by art” and wept. A great artiste.

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Inspiring Muse

September 17, 2016 – 11:26 am

The winter sun dropped to the west of Greenpoint. The tenement bricks glowed red under a cold spring sky. I climbed the stairs to a small studio showing small paintings of Walter Robinson. I nodded to Lisa and the artist. They seemed very much in love. Really. Walter’s painting were not self-portraits, but studies of […]

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So Faithless – Pieter Bruegel

May 21, 2016 – 12:37 pm

“Because the world is so faithless, I go my way in mourning.” Pieter Bruegel

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