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Hello Kent Johnson: You raise a number of important points in your piece about negative reviewing. However, I think you’re patently wrong about the overarching issue. Negative and positive reviewing are just flipsides of the same coin, guards of the same sand castle, doctors of the same symptoms. Both the blandly positive review and the […]
Henry Moore (1898-1986) He must have watched women from afar, stretched on blankets in the park, taking the sun on the beach, lounging with coffee and a newspaper, their bodies undulating like the West Riding. They say women adored him— Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren, his wife Irina, a beauty from Kiev— at garden parties where […]
You painted Las Vegas before it ever existed. I bet you never thought anyone would take abstract expressionism so literally. Such gaudy fantasies taken to impossible extremes by no taste and money. It’s your kind of town. Why else would your self-portrait end up in The Guggenheim Gallery located just off the reception lobby of […]