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Tag Archives: journalism
Messing With Space
Like a pig rooting for truffles I harvest luscious phrases from Roberta Smith’s art critiques. After “he jumped on the Color Field painting bandwagon,” Jules Olitski (1922 – 2007) created works that “mess with space and scale in a visceral, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, criticism, journalism, Jules Olitski, language, painting, Roberta Smith, style
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‘Gloopy Glory’
The paintings of 90-year-old Frank Auerbach, “last surviving member of a pathfinding generation of postwar British figurative painters,” are up my alley. Auerbach’s iterative pigment attacks are savage and astonishing, and Jason Farago is always good for a blue-streak of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, drawings, Frank Auerbach, Jason Farago, journalism, language, painting, rhetoric, style, writing
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How Are Posh Men Educated?
…The vanities of posh men… centre on an ancient system that trains a narrow caste of people to run our affairs…. Ever questing to penetrate British lingo, I wobble over “public” versus “private” education in the kingdom’s parlance. In my … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, conservatism, culture, jargon, journalism, language, lexicon, linguistics, miscellaneous, personal, semantics, society
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‘Miner of Difficult Truths’
I can study all day Alice Neel’s brushwork and modeling of flesh and features, how she gestures at her subjects’ surroundings with casual precision. Her “Carmen and Judy” has a frank, womanly exactness and searing intimacy that The New Yorker’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Neel, art, criticism, culture, journalism, language, painting, personal, style
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Wide Load
Jason Farrago lavishes a container shipload of exegetical rumination on Julie Mehretu’s paintings. Lines accreted in an essentially radial configuration, with large arcs orbiting an absent central axis, and orthogonal spokes sprouting from the core. (The Mehretu black line is … Continue reading
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Tagged art, criticism, drawing, galleries, journalism, language, painting, rhetoric, style
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Shiny Objects and Hot Takes
When I re-read my EthicalDative posts at a later date they often seem overly arch or frivolous — less trenchant and cleansing than they felt at the moment of posting. “Stale” is the word to describe them, I suppose, with … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, journalism, language, personal, rhetoric, style, writing
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‘You Have No Authority Here, Jackie Weaver’
… I was momentarily stirred to hear there were some handbags between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer in one of parliament’s corridors after prime minister’s questions on Wednesday… According to some reports, the Labour leader was “puce” and “rattled”… I … Continue reading
On a Parlous Trek the Ground Slopes East
The gap between China and the United States is shrinking as China is the only major economy expected to report economic growth for 2020 despite the pandemic. And brawling with itself at some crossroad truck stop far over the horizon … Continue reading
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Tagged China, journalism, language, miscellaneous, rhetoric, society, style, writing
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Beethovian
If there’s something that can be called a Beethovian gravitas assumable by a sculptor who is female, artist Maggi Hambling is a contender. That’s by way of an admiring aside to the topic of this article. “Luxuriantly bushed,” “obligingly passive,” … Continue reading
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Tagged art, culture, journalism, language, lexicon, rhetoric, sculpture, style
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‘A Fisherman Holds Up a Trout He Caught’
El hijo de su madre has stumbled upon an El Dorado of found poetry in the “Outdoors” fishing column of a local newspaper. Bink Grimes’s lavish rundown of the piscatory scene pulses with staccato verve, inside lingo, and riptide granularity. … Continue reading →