Friday, October 12 2007
The Lost Generation and the Art of Living
Sara and Gerald Murphy inspired an astonishing array of the century’s greatest writers and artists; they helped float, inspire, and otherwise sustain the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Ferdinand Leger, Man Ray, Cole Porter, John Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker, to name but a few.
Monday, August 27 2007
Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible Enemy
Wyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time.
Monday, July 2 2007
The Master of Light and Shadow
Rembrandt reaches into the dark spaces of his subject and exposes the subject's inner self, thereby confronting the viewer with the somewhat unsettling presence of another human being.
Monday, September 25 2006
Packaging Optimism
Not only were the lives of Andy Warhol and industrial-design pioneer Norman Bel Geddes surprisingly similar, but they seemed to share a mission, to explore the artistry of commercialization.
