Elliott Hunter, Grasshopper, 1967, collection of Lawrence (Dan) D'Antignac and The Woodshop Gallery, on view at the Smart Museum of Art through December 30, 2018.
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- Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Elliott Hunter Yesterday, at the Smart Museum, “The Time is Now!” I was immediately struck by this painting: A large square, four feet by four feet. Each inch compels. The painter is Elliott Hunter. It was made in 1967, and is called Grasshopper . Twice, recently, I have seen grasshoppers on the pavement. Once along the curved inlet behind the bus stop ... more»
- Friday, August 17, 2018 Folding Screen I had a thought last week at the Metropolitan Museum's Poetry of Nature exhibit of Edo Paintings. A most basic, untutored thought, but of interest to me. Standing before a folding screen, on which was mounted Cranes and Pines, a work in ink and light color by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716). That a screen is a stylized geometry of the effects of landscape. The ... more»
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- Monday, November 20, 2017 Beckmann on Instagram at the VQR A piece I've been writing for a long time about Max Beckmann's Actors is running in fragments at the Virginia Quarterly Review. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbuldZKF-T8/?taken-by=vqreview ... more»
- Thursday, November 2, 2017 Review Essay on the Women of Surrealism in the Literary Review My review of Whitney Chadwick's very interesting book The Militant Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism is in this week's issue of Britain's Literary Review. The opening can be read here: https://literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue/459 ... 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 Poussin This 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»