Slow Looking
Art historian, author, educator
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Zurbarán and the art of erasure
This is a painting of a piece of cloth. Because it is itself painted onto cloth (in this case canvas stretched over a wooden support), it’s a particularly self-reflexive work of art: cloth painted onto cloth. This is an artist for whom clot...
"History is not the past"
“Room with all Existing Words” at the Temple of Mithras. The exhibition consists of three objects (I didn’t get a good picture of the third). The title seems to come straight out of the newspaper (see caption below).
What you see, in Mark...
Stephen Skidmore, Afternoon Paintings
This is my text for Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna. The Skidmore exhibition opens May 1st.
In the opening minutes of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film Strangers on a Train, the protagonists are shown as two separate pairs of legs, striding purpo...
The story of a strange hat
My photo of Antoine Watteau’s “The Scale of Love” (more about that title later), made around 1717-18, at the National Gallery, London.
Let’s start here, with a bit of Flaubert. He’s describing a hat.
It was one of those head coverings of...
Is Mark Rothko a bad painter?
Badness, absurdity, vulgarity and the value of resistance
Everything is given to us by the party and the government and only one thing is taken away: [the freedom] to write badly. Comrades, we must not conceal that is a very important righ...
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