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Il Divisiionismo: A Museum In Tortona
The little town of Tortona is off the regular tourist path that runs through the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. True, it was the oldest Roman settlement in the Po Valley, established more than...
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Camillo Innocenti: The Cottagers
Poor Camillo Inoocenti (1871-1961). Unlike some of his fellow painters, Innocenti gets no entry in the Grove Dictionary of Art, even in the wake of the ground-breaking 2008 exhibition Radical Light:...
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Michele Cascella: Youthful Prodigy
He was a prodigy, there was not doubt; certainly his father believed in him from the beginning. He did poorly in school, being the kind of student that teachers described as being adrift with the...
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Luigi Ghirri: Mixing Anthropology And Metaphysics
It is the kind of tromp l'oeil picture that many an amateur has accidentally produced, but in this instance the result is so perfectly achieved that you want to know who is the photographer - and...
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"They Told Me I Should Go To Rehab....."
...so that is where I will be for now, not a vacation but more like out for repairs. In recent months my gait has been less of a walk and more like am old Tuscan dance, the saltarello; the name...
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Writing The Book On Love: From Alcman To Jessica Fisher
"The threadruns thin.The needruns hard.Hard." - "Fate And Necessity" by Alkman, from Lyra Graeca, Vol. I, # 142.:Not Aphrodite, no. But like a child,Wild, Love comes down,Almost as though walking on...
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Ethel Sands: Not So Cozy After All
Ethel Sands (1873-1962) is one of those artists whose paintings have always impressed me as being very well executed (they should be; she studied in Paris with Eugene Carrere and was deeply imprinted...
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Homage To Martin Luther King, Jr. - Alfred Manessier
A tribute from an expected quarter. Blue and red, water and blood, bursting with life., a force that moves the spirit and the world.The late Alfred Manessier (1911-1993) is not a familiar name to most...
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Johanna Grussner: Out Of This World
"You're clear out of this worldWhen I'm looking at youI hear out of this worldThe music that no mortal ever knewYou're right out of a bookThe fairy tale I read when I was so highNo armored knight out...
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Happy New Year
Stir up some fun, and economically, too, for the New Year. In the frugal spirit of old Cape Cod living, the local red berry overwhelms any pretensions the vodka may have, so go for the cheap stuff....
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The Long View: Victor Segalen
This quiet field is more than it appears, as so many photographs turn out to be when you dig into the particulars. . Sixty years after a Frenchman, Victor Segalen, took this photograph of a farm field...
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Ethel Sands: Not So Cozy After All
Ethel Sands (1873-1962) is one of those artists whose paintings have always impressed me as being very well executed (they should be; she studied in Paris with Eugene Carrere and was deeply imprinted...
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The Single Petal Of A Rose: Jay De Feo
"The White Rose is a fact painted somewhere on a slow curve between destinations. This is all I remember. This is all I know." - Jay De Feo, 1965"I first saw the rose in De Feo's top-floor apartment...
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Ernst Haas: Photographing Intimate Space
"What birds plunge through is not the intimate space,In which you see all Forms intensified.(In the Open denied, you would lose yourself,would disappear into the vastness.)Space reaches from us and...
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Artichokes & Ardor
The nubbed leavescome away in a tease of green, thinningdown to the membrane:the quick, purpled beginnings of the male.Then the slow hairs of the heart:the choke that guards its trophy,its vegetable...
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From A Box Of Old Photographs
As you can see, these are very old photographs. If the little blonde girl with the Mary Jane shoes sitting at the left end of the front row is four years old then the date is 1920. Her name is June...
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Elusive Brenda Bullion
When I walked into the Corners Gallery last October I had no idea that the owner would turn out to be related to an artist who had made a vivid impression on me on a visit to Ithaca eight years before,...
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Essex Moonrise
I've written about this landscape before, one of the much loved and still missed landscapes of my childhood: the coastal marshlands of Essex County, Massachusetts. The Great Marsh, as it fittingly...
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The Georgics Of Charles Daubigny & Childe Hassam
This little beauty, Sunrise-Autumn by Childe Hassam (1859-1935) is not in a museum but how well it would look paired with one that is - Charles-Francois Daubigny's Fields in the Month of June at the...
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The Garden Is The Center Of The World
This is the garden; when you look it's fartoo bright and burns your eyesand so you turn away, although you knowthat everything is real, everything you seeis real, and through time life unwindsand is...
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