Territory versus hierarchy

Steven Pressfield’s 2002 book The War of Art has one really interesting point.

A woman’s freedom

Yesterday I attended a screening of A Woman Like That, a movie about the life and work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi interwoven with that of the filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod.

Prickly / Piquant

An encounter with John Singer Sargent’s work last month got me all worked up.  Une rencontre avec l’œuvre de John Singer Sargent le mois dernier m’a contrariée.

“Variability is the enemy of quality.”

Last month I visited a working factory and learned something about where gender equality stands today.

CHEE-ka-go and Wisconsin

Last week I visited the Windy City and the state whose motto is “forward!” with my father.  We got to spend time with lots of great art and lots of great family.

The Dregs at the Art Gym

Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf’s Dregs, on view at the Marylhurst Art Gym right now, raises important questions about consent and responsibility in portraiture. 

An air of family

I get the impression that the artist Bobby Neel Adams would understand Subjective’s focus on family.

Down-to-earth

Ellen Dissayanake forces artists to be what they should naturally be: practical, logical, sane, focused on creation.

Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities

Tim Combs and I are just two of the Northwest artists participating in the art show at Lewis and Clark College’s Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium, which runs through Friday.

John T Unger says “DEFEND ART.”

Artist John T Unger’s battle with a mass-producing imitator is not, as he claims, about defending art: it’s about trying to make a corrupt and evil system work in his favor.

Free culture

The art world has lots to learn from the forced renivention of the music industry, and watching the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto is a delightful way to study some of those lessons.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier + Citizen

Portraits are vertical.  They’re so vertical that we even named the vertical option for printing a page “portrait” (to distinguish it from the “landscape” orientation).  Portraits are vertical because people tend to be vertical.

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