In weekly posts, I discuss the larger meanings of art, the deeper meanings of politics, and the unsuspected meanings of (nearly) everything else.
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Art and the Essence of Space
Esther Schipper Gallery
We talk a lot about space in painting but say little about the spaces where paintings are seen. Five-hundred years ago, these were the interiors of cathedrals and palazzos. In the eighteenth-century, paintings hangi...
Art During Wartime
John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919
John Singer Sargent was his era’s preeminent portrait painter. He also made watercolor landscapes. These sketches, sparkling with accuracy, prompted the British War Memorials Committee to recruit him for t...
What's David Hockney's Beef with Abstraction, Anyway?
David Hockney, Another Abstraction Resting on a Blue and White Checkered Tablecloth, 2025. On view at Serpentine North, London
I was going to write about art during wartime (a variation on the Talking Heads’ Life During Wartime) but I have...
P.S.
Hello All, I gave the Andy Warhol painting accompanying my last post the wrong title. It’s Yarn, not Yearn. However, in the course of making this correction I learned that there is, among inveterate knitters, a syndrome known as yearning fo...
Further Thoughts About History
Andy Warhol, Yearn, 1983. With images like these, Warhol made his not entirely joking claim to be an heir of Jackson Pollock.
The comments on my “odd thought about art history” were so interesting that I want to respond to some of them. My...
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