Alex Katz, scared silly
If I were teaching a college writing class, I’d show this interview to my students.
A painting rediscovered
“Alice Neel painted two neighborhood boys in her studio in the 1960s. Fifty years later, the mystery of what happened to the picture has been solved”: a bittersweet story from The New York Times.
“A little patch of yellow wall”
In Proust’s The Prisoner, the writer Bergotte dies after after gazing at “a little patch of yellow wall“ in Vermeer’s View of Delft. Is there such patch in the painting?
A Gris collage
At The New York Times, Jason Farago offers a close reading of Juan Gris’s Still Life: The Table.
😱
Edvard Munch’s The Scream, the basis for the face screaming in fear emoji, may not depict a person screaming.
The Bob Rosses
The New York Times asks: “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings?” And there’s an answer.
Rations detail
Kyle Surges’s paintings knock me out.
Churchill on looking at nature
“Once you begin to study it, all Nature is equally interesting and equally charged with beauty.”
A de Kooning, stolen and recovered
The details make the story sound like something for the Coen brothers.
A Larry Rivers Camel pack
At the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Larry Rivers: (Re)Appropriations.
Gui, c’est toi?
A stroller in an Adolf Dehn painting, looking a lot like Guillaume Apollinaire.