First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance...
Too many younger artists critics and curators are fetishizing the sixties...
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product Richter 'found'...
When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism...
'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World...
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see...
In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of...
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when...
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing learning unlearning...
Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into...
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable...
I just feel energized when I am around young talented people. There is...
The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is to me still amazing but then...
Obviously there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing....
What do I think of L.A.? It's boring with some amazing nuggets. Like there...
Janet Jackson is an icon I've been honored to meet her a few times working...
Maggie Smith is an amazing woman and not as serious in real life.