Class of 1973
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Favorite Records of 2012
1. Dr. John - Locked Down
Easily my favorite of the year. One of Dr John’s best ever. His live show with this material was spectacular.
2. Farrar, Johnson, Parker, Yames - New Multitudes lyrics by Woody Guthrie
3. Dylan - Tempest
Dylan’s best of his last few records.
4. Bettye LaVette - Thankful N’ Thoughtful
The version of Savoy Brown’s I’m Tired is great.
5. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
6. Jack White - Blunderbuss
Cool version of Little Willie John’s I’m Shakin’
7. Calexico - Algiers
8. Neil Young - Americana
This was a big surprise. After reading the pre-release publicity I thought I’d hate it. The song list sounded like a Burl Ives record. But it is true blue Crazy Horse.
9. Van Morrison - No Plan B
10. Magnolia Mountain - Town and Country
Easily my favorite of the year. One of Dr John’s best ever. His live show with this material was spectacular.
2. Farrar, Johnson, Parker, Yames - New Multitudes lyrics by Woody Guthrie
3. Dylan - Tempest
Dylan’s best of his last few records.
4. Bettye LaVette - Thankful N’ Thoughtful
The version of Savoy Brown’s I’m Tired is great.
5. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
6. Jack White - Blunderbuss
Cool version of Little Willie John’s I’m Shakin’
7. Calexico - Algiers
8. Neil Young - Americana
This was a big surprise. After reading the pre-release publicity I thought I’d hate it. The song list sounded like a Burl Ives record. But it is true blue Crazy Horse.
9. Van Morrison - No Plan B
10. Magnolia Mountain - Town and Country
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
"I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography."
- Lee Friedlander
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
June 30, 2012–September 23, 2012 at theCorcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW Washington, DC 20006
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #83, 1975. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 inches. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William A. Clark Fund, and Mary M. Hitchcock 1975.30. © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.
On what was the hottest day I've ever experienced in Washington DC I went to this exhibit. Air conditioned galleries and breezy abstracts made the day more than pleasant. I love this type of exhibit that illuminates an entire body of work - especially one that I've mostly witnessed in books or by a solitary picture exhibited in museums here and there.
More than any abstract painter I'm familiar with these pictures suggest a reality and sense of a place with vivid emotional strength. They suggest architecture, the ocean, landscape, cityscape and interiors. They remind me of some of Matisse's large canvases, especially his windows. I also relate to these pictures because of my own photographic attempts at rendering reality abstractly. Some of Diebenkorn's monochrome prints reminded me of photographs. Included are sketches, smaller paintings done on cigar box lids and prints. Also is a 20 minute film worth watching.
But the large canvases are exhilarating and inspirational. A must see if you can.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, February 6–April 9, 2012
Atget created a monumental body of work in Paris and its environs during the first part of the 20th century. So great, in fact, that to call it “Documents pour artistes” (on his business sign) seems to trivialize the work. I related to him from the moment I first saw a couple of his prints in the Boston, MFA. To me, with some relative sophistication in composition, he simply aimed his camera at the things he found most interesting. The prints look ancient and modern at the same time. They also at times appear naive - as when the corners are darkened by the edge of the lenses circle of vision, or the highlights block to a pure white flair. Parks, rural landscape, architectural details, prostitutes, everyday workers, courtyards full of clutter, whatever he looked at he did with curiosity and determination to show us his world.
Bourg-la-Reine, Ferme Camille Desmoulins, 1901
Cour, 7 rue de Valence, 1922
Friday, March 30, 2012
Photo of the week
Taken in Sullivan Hall (actually it is a club) in NYC. Just for the effects of light and the mysterious figures.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Eleanor Callahan - Muse of Harry Callahan RIP
“He just liked to take the pictures of me,” she told an interviewer in 2008. “In every pose. Rain or shine. And whatever I was doing. If I was doing the dishes or if I was half asleep. And he knew that I never, never said no. I was always there for him. Because I knew that Harry would only do the right thing.” - Eleanor Callahan
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Photos of the week
Simply put, these photographs are about the light. I tried to make an interesting composition, but the first thing I saw was beautiful light.
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.” - Edward Hopper
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