portrait w portrait

Sargent at The MET

 

painting as portal

"art is our compass to the cosmos." 

jack whitten

jack whitten, the messenger
MoMA
photos mine or j li

 

you don't have to tell me twice

refuge on a recent rainy saturday 

mark bradford, at hauser & wirth chelsea

 

she's arrived

at The MET

 

Peace

at the Jacob Lawrence exhibit, The American Struggle, this vibrant jewel simply entitled Peace stood out to me....

the series demands the viewer's attention to both paintings and accompanying text and given social distancing protocols, requires time and patience to view but is well worth taking in, slowly walking around the room, and then perhaps again, quietly, deliberately, in rhythm with the bold tempera brushstrokes applied by Lawrence to his 30 small masterpieces that lead us through critical moments in our nation's early history as interpreted through the eye of the confident, caring artist...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-metropolitan-museum.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/these-missing-jacob-lawrence-paintings-are-finally-in-a-museum--and-theyre-masterpieces/2020/01/23/aec3ffa2-3d21-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html

 

museum meditation...

Perez Art Museum....

in a sculpture garden

 not to be overlooked at Kips Bay, this expansive interior installation.... 

jeff lincoln art and design , Kips Bay Show house