I first started looking at Chuck Close’s work when my high school art teacher handed me a book of his portraits in 1997. I was stunned, look at the way he marries portraiture and the language of digitalization. Close claims … Continue reading →

Hyena Stomp 1962 Oil on canvas support: 1956 x 1956 mm frame: 1982 x 1981 x 91 mm Courtesy of the Tate The Wikipedia article on syncopation includes the following observation, “playing a note ever-so-slightly before or after a beat … Continue reading →

Courtesy UbuWeb (2002) This documentary follows the making of Marsyas, from the earliest maquettes to the production of the piece. It stops short of the installation at Tate. Kapoor comments on each stage of the process, and on the ideas … Continue reading →

Charlie Rose interviews Chuck Close and Robert Rauschenberg. This is a candid, accessible hour of interviews.

Walker Evans took this photograph in 1936. The steel mill strikes me in its resemblance to a battleship. It looms in the background as though at port of call as occupier of a land of bare dirt yards and one-room … Continue reading →