Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 87, today! Here are some paintings by and quotes from the artist. “Art serves to establish…
bluets #6
A TV was on in the corner of the bar. The sound was off. But after watching it a few…
bluets #5
On my way home, after I reached street level, I stopped in a drinking establishment, where a number of men…
bluets #4
No one wanted to look at the woman on the train who was begging. She came up to me with…
bluets #3
At one of the stops in the subway, after I’d arrived back in the city, a woman carrying an infant…
bluets #2
Across from me on the train was a man who was returning to the same city I was, and who…
1000 Words: Life Is with People by Atticus Lish
“What the work of art looks like isn’t too important.” Sol LeWitt 1. If I close my eyes, I cannot…
a photograph by Truett Dietz
“This particular image is from the pool I learned to swim in as a child. In the late 90s some…
Our Natural Bent for Destruction and the Rights to Failure
“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What…
Mortality and Flatulence: a Conversation with Luca Dipierro
I first saw Luca Dipierro’s work in an animation he’d made for a book of short stories by Dawn Raffel. It was…