Category Archives: Ephemera

Pointing out the transitory stuff, whether floating world or sinking feeling.

He sure knew how to throw stones

Philip Johnson was the focus of one of the questions on my written comps when I was studying art history. Out of sentiment as well as historical delight, I always treat his Glass House and related works when I teach … Continue reading

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Glenn does Guernica

Just back from his first visit to Madrid, Glenn Adamson of the V&A offers a short take on Guernica and its preparatory sketches.

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Conceptual comestibles

A recipe for a some playful brainfood: Take one local artist with an irrepressible interest in issues of ethnicity and identity. Add her healthy preoccupation with the cultural semiotics of cuisine. Mix with a promenade along Baltimore’s inner harbor and … Continue reading

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“Elementary,” he said.

David Packwood of Art History Today provides an interesting overview of some issues raised at the intersection of traditional connoisseurship and scientific analysis. Do contemporary empirical methods threaten to displace the variable, and sometimes volatile, mix of observation, intuition, memory, … Continue reading

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Excoriating the Bawdy Politic….

Over at Popehat, I’ve written some thoughts about the cheapening of bawd in art, letters, and especially the press.  There is art, and there are pirates.

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