I like my own freedom to do what I want without anyone telling me what to do. I feel we all want our space. My work has that feeling of really wanting its own space. My paintings are about freedom. *
Category: Art
The Monastery and the Microscope: A Book Review
The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
On the Wall and More – June in London and Paris
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine Lake. *
The middle of June is probably not
2017 Venice Biennale (I) – Art As Mirror
[A note from Cecilia: See end of text] This year’s Biennale, in spite of some critics, for me fits the bill of art…
Desert X – Everywhere & Nowhere
Desert X, the first edition of a biennial in the vast Coachella Valley, 120 miles east of Los Angeles, opened
Thermal Military Camera – On The Refugees
Still from Richard Mosse’s Incoming
I had no idea this was only the beginning…
In the winter of 2002, I was crossing
Art & Math – Percussion Of Stone-age Serengeti
1.6 million-year-old stone handaxe (British Museum) from the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Stone knapping was what
Cézanne The Neuro-artist – Form Over Color
Mont Sainte-Victoire (La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885/1895) Paul Cézanne (French 1839–1906)
Keep your eyes at one of the dark spots in the painting – you can
MoMA 1929 – Monet, Cézanne, & Van Gogh Revisited
Alfred Barr, the legendary founding director of MoMA has
Helping The One-Percenters – The 99% Do Their Best
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Robert Smithson, Dead Tree, 1969 (Destroyed. Reconstruction at the 2015 Venice Biennale). *
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