can really influence the way you look at an artwork. two examples. gerhard mayer makes drawings, both on paper – we showed some a couple of months ago in san francisco http://toddhosfelt.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/were-about-to-open-a-show/ —… Read More
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the morgan library is probably my favorite museum in new york. i recently went for the show of william blake — whose work always startles me with its eccentricity and freshness. genius, really.… Read More
read for my book group - couldn’t possibly be more different from the popular culture it spawned. the monster is not victor frankenstein’s creation, but victor frankenstein himself. a creator who withholds love… Read More
i’d like to go on record as saying that by comparison, contemporary design makes contemporary art seem completely reasonable. coinciding with the art fairs in miami is design miami – “the global forum… Read More
of gerhard mayer’s drawings. i love them. they’re the perfect example of infinite variation. these are hand-made drawings of ink on paper. they’re made tracing an ellipse and following 7 rules: 1. the… Read More
a friend of mine works with an organization that is attempting to alleviate the cycle of poverty in india by giving the very poorest children access to first-rate education. parikrma humanity foundation currently… Read More
has been on my stack for about 7 years. i dutifully read pollan’s articles in the new york times magazine, but when it came to reading an entire book, there were just too… Read More
do they need it? there was a flow chart in the september art + auction that purports to answer that question by asking 4 questions. their recommendation, sullied with my opinions follows: 1. … Read More
in a beautifully-lit, former 3(maybe 4?) car garage, is in rural lake county, california. here’s an image of russell’s last show at my gallery, consisting of astronomical drawings (both flat and 3-d) like… Read More
how could i have let so many months go by without eating at woodward’s garden? i first ate there 10 years ago – on my birthday. all this lifetime later, and… Read More
i shouldn’t do this… we walked into this new restaurant and were seated immediately 3 times in the last 2 weeks. but the secret is bound to get out, so here goes… nopalito… Read More
about being so terribly attracted to timothy horn’s work. the australian sculptor’s over-sized baubles are just s o d a r n seductive… but i had a nagging fear that they… Read More
opened a few days ago. wow! the highline is an elevated freight train track that was originally built in the 1930′s to alleviate the danger of trains running on tracks at street-level on… Read More
is known for his extremely low-resolution moving images made with L.E.D.s. his pixilated representations are created with so few L.E.D.s (more than a thousand times fewer than the number of pixels on… Read More
just finished installing his show “cubic drops” in our san francisco gallery. it’s genius. there’s a wealth of his masterful drawings – in graphite and on aluminum foil and scratched into plexiglass. there’s… Read More
from italy last week. sorry. now that i’m home and have internet access, here are some highlights. a year ago, our friends randall and teresa bought a masseria – a walled italian farm… Read More
