The Beautiful Beach: A Photo Essay
It is May 7, 2011 — a Saturday. We drive forty-five minutes south to Dauphin
Island. This will be the last time we will visit the Gulf of Mexico before
moving away.
It had
Visual Art
Where Are We Now?
The image to the left it Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “The Wanderer Above
the Mists”: that quintessentially Romantic image. In it, the solitary, heroic
individual stands with his back to civilization, facing
Laid Bare: Snow, Photography and Truth
The notions of nature are lonely photographs.
Think about it for a moment. How does one go about describing nature?
Where does one begin? What does one include?
Perhaps more importantly, where does
The Four Holy Gospels
This September, Dan Colen [http://www.gagosian.com/artists/dan-colen/] exhibited
his bubble gum canvases at the Gagosian Gallery, a linchpin in Chelsea that
represents some of the biggest players in the contemporary
Jack Chick is Robert Crumb
I just concocted a new conspiracy theory. A year and a half after seeing R.
Crumb’s illustrated Genesis in the New Yorker, I’ve had some time to digest it
and I