Moving on, or moving back
Thank you, BDN, for the opportunity to have blogged here for the past 17 months.
Levitating lobster boat, and an unsalvageable ghost ship
A levitating lobster boat and an oddly-named trawler remind me of the greatest maritime mystery of all time.
What has the NEA done for you recently?
America would hardly be a cultural wasteland without the NEA. In fact I doubt anyone would notice it was gone.
How to paint something that makes no sense
There’s something to be said for not jumping in too fast to ‘fix’ a plein air piece. You can easily destroy what’s quirky and wonderful about it because to your tired eyes it looks just wrong.
It’s all Michael’s fault
It’s all fun and games, until someone doesn’t finish her painting.
Resolving disagreement, the art history way
In a post-truth world, art doesn’t lie.
Is love really too much to ask?
Two innocent babies belittled on a racist website. It’s the ugly underbelly of the internet.
Made in China
The committee that chose Lei Yixin to sculpt the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial has a lot to answer for.
A sane estimate of my capabilities
Our gifts are transitory. Once given, they can be lost again in an instant. They don’t totally define us, but they are a part of who we are.
In search of an imaginary boat
It’s fun to puddle around in our imagination, but it can mean losing one’s sense of place. We can be either in our heads or in the world, but seldom in both places simultaneously.
