Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin, 1965
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- Sunday, April 13, 2014 Abstraction and EyesOne of the unusual aspects of Beauford Delaney’s work as an abstract painter was that even late in his career, when he lived in Paris and had moved very fully into abstraction, he also painted very specific and characterful portraits. These two ... more»
- Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Toward SpringIn The Times this morning, an item suggesting that blossoming in the New York City parks will be unusually overlapping this season. I remember this from certain springs. In general it would be so carefully painted in Central Park – first the ... more»
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- Friday, April 11, 2014 Guggenheim FellowshipI'm delighted to be one of the 2014 Guggenheim fellows in General Nonfiction alongside Deborah Baker, Emily Fox Gordon, Joy Harjo, Yunte Huang, Jamie James, D.T. Max, Meghan O'Rourke, Susan Orlean and Victoria Sweet. The entire list of new fellows ... more»
- Sunday, March 30, 2014 Upcoming Talks in New York and Lenox, MassI'll be speaking as part of a panel on James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney in a wonderful festival celebrating James Baldwin in New York City on April 24th. And I'll be giving a talk on July 21st on Bernard Berenson, the Gilded Age art ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at PoussinThis essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review. ... more»