You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me: Part One

You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me: Part One

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me: Part One Rejection is never easy, but artists face more of it than most The artist known as Swoon, now in her late thirties, gained a reputation early in her career for evocative and beautifully crafted street art and for wacky...
Anne Lindberg

Anne Lindberg

Anne Lindberg I first encountered Anne Lindberg’s work about seven years ago, when she was in residence at the Omi International Art Center in upstate New York, and then a few months later, while she was hanging a show at her gallery in Manhattan. In her Omi studio,...
Tricia Paik

Tricia Paik

Tricia PaikCurating the Contemporary  SoundCloud Facebook Tricia Paik has been involved with contemporary art since the mid-1990s, when she wrote her master’s thesis on Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial for the prestigious Institute of Fine Arts in New York. She worked...
Blather and Bloat

Blather and Bloat

Blather and Bloat Part One of Some Random Thoughts on Writing About Art   I have been sleeping with a number of critics lately. Stacked on my bedside table, littered on the bed itself, are books by Roger Shattuck, Arthur Danto, Leo Steinberg, Robert Hughes, and...
First Love and Irresistible Impulses

First Love and Irresistible Impulses

First Love and Irresistible Impulses Or the man who licked the Vermeer My first boyfriend, in college, always smelled of Ivory soap. It was a clean, innocent scent, like baby powder or shampoo, and therefore perhaps appropriate for young love. For years after we broke...