Monthly Archives: March 2019

“Eva”

Posted on March 8, 2019 by JMN
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“Casually Disrespected Boundaries”

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

While living in Rome in the 1970s, Wally Reinhardt became infatuated with Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” I like the idea that a person with no formal background or training can disrespect boundaries while creating work that seems unstable and undependable. “Back in … Continue reading →

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Bernard Gilardi

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

As an obscure, untrained, uninspired painter closeted in a shed, I get a vicarious boost reading about painters who manage to wander into visibility from the sidelines — posthumously, most often, which is not the boosting part. “For more than … Continue reading →

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Defamation Nation

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

  How Australia Became the Defamation Capital of the World A court ruling in favor of a billionaire businessman against The Sydney Morning Herald illustrates the sorry state of the country’s defamation laws. By Louisa Lim Ms. Lim is a … Continue reading →

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Crossed Out

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

[The Brant Foundation Art Study Center in the East Village, New York City, opens with an exhibition of nearly 70 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat created from 1980 to 1987.] Other paintings pay homage to jazz greats like Miles Davis and … Continue reading →

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Titans in Natty Attire

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

Joni Mitchell describes herself as a “painter derailed by circumstance.” (“Joni Mitchell,” Wikipedia) (Photo from Guy Trebay, “Of David Hockney and Joni Mitchell Holding Hands,” NYTimes, 2-28- 19) (c) 2019 JMN.

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Proto Trudeau?

Posted on March 7, 2019 by JMN

[“Sir John Soane’s Museum [London] will announce this week that it is to stage Hogarth: Place and Progress, an exhibition of 50 or so works in which Hogarth observed the morals of contemporary life, conveying the comedy and tragedy of … Continue reading →

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The Screaming “Caravaggio”

Posted on March 6, 2019 by JMN

Eric Turquin, art dealer: “Look at the execution of the lips, the way the chin and eyelids are painted… It belongs to Caravaggio. How could it be by anyone else?” Keith Christiansen, MOMA-NY: [Contains details too crude to be by … Continue reading →

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The “Immortals” Budge

Posted on March 4, 2019 by JMN

Decades after other French-speaking countries adopted feminine names for professions, the official guardians of the language in France have also backed the change. The Académie française, whose members are known as “immortals”, has said it has no obstacle in principle … Continue reading →

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Haircut Comment of the Day

Posted on March 4, 2019 by JMN

Rob Auton: ‘My haircut got comments like – Doth thou playeth the lute, sire?’ The polymath standup, writer and painter on the things that make him laugh the most… (Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 3-1-19) (c) 2019 JMN.

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