Category Archives: A Periodic Decoction

Boiling art down and extracting the essence of what’s old in what’s new, a retroprospective reflecollection.

Dogged determination

Posted on 6 September 2012 by David Byron

I once heard Phil Leider say of Francisco Goya that he had only ever truly longed for two things: the career of Diego Velázquez and the love of the Duchess of Alba. Maybe that’s so. His last duchess Goya depicted … Continue reading →

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Of Neighbors and Fences

Posted on 1 August 2008 by David Byron

From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers … Continue reading →

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Yes, We Canvass!

Posted on 8 July 2008 by David Byron

Art hooligans have struck again. Followers of POPaganda artist Ron English have caused a stir in Boston.  Working in a neo-Warholian mode, which both misses and reinforces whatever Warhol was on about, English has morphed portraits of Abe Lincoln and … Continue reading →

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