Dec 31, 2014Tim’s Vermeer. Penn and Teller.First of all, what a dreadfully pretentious, expensive, meaningless, stupid idea to begin with; to make a copy of Vermeer’s The Music...
Dec 31, 2014Why Stephen Lyman Is Not An Artist* (Letter to a Philistine)*Remarks to an old college climbing, wrestling, skiing, rugby, drinking buddy When you told me that Stephen Lyman was “the second...
Dec 31, 2014Adam Gopnik; Learning to (not) Draw (New Yorker, 27 June 2011)About fifteen years ago a friend of mine and I had a huge argument about (retinal) drawing. One day I suggested the possibility that one...
Dec 31, 2014David Byrd at Greg Kucera GalleryEvery First Thursday we meet at the Café Vita before making the rounds of several galleries around Pioneer Square after which we try to...
Dec 31, 2014David Mamet CapitulatesI grew up in the New York world of classical music surrounded by the harmonies of Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn played by Lenny, Isaac,...
Dec 30, 2014What is Art? (Salt Lake Magazine)In case you have ever pondered the question, “what is art” (or what isn’t) the current two exhibits at the Salt Lake City Main library...
Dec 30, 2014Ansel Adams and Ernst Bacon and the Pinched Clearing Winter StormThe recent hoopla over the glass plates purporting to belong to Ansel Adams has reminded me of a not-so-amusing photographic moment of my...
May 5, 2014Seattle Symphony and MinimalismAs sometime symphony goers, and thanks to today’s information gathering techniques, we received free tickets to hear the Seattle band...