The World Depends On It, And It Is Not Money

September 20, 2010

Someone once said to me, “After the final no there is a yes on which the future of the world depends.” Makes me think about the making of art.  But then, most things do. So try this with me for a moment.  Okay, forget about money for a second. I know that is difficult, maybe [...]

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Unbelievable!

September 3, 2010

Watch this and try regular breathing! Won’t work. These guys are living Spidermen! Okay, watch it all the way through and then think of how many times they’ve crashed, fallen, tripped and wound up completely incapacitated. This is called, suffering for your art. Now watch it again. Of course, we only see the fruits of [...]

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You Know You Make Me Want to Shout!

August 24, 2010

What happened was nothing more than remarkable.  When I described to a friend what happened, he said, “Sometimes good things happen to good people.”  Thank you, Edward! What happened was that I sold more than twenty paintings in a few weeks time.  Like a gust of hot wind that comes in out of the desert [...]

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“Legacy” Print on Sale

August 12, 2010

This past weekend I participated in an outdoor art show in Westhampton Beach, NY.  You never know who will walk by and what they will say, or buy.  I did not expect the reaction to the “Legacy” painting to be as powerful as it turned out to be.  The original “Legacy” painting is large, 40” [...]

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Spirit Speaks

August 6, 2010

A beautiful hot and windless summer day for a wedding in the countryside, in verdant upstate New York.   Bright sun and gorgeous white puffy clouds.  On a golf course.  The groom grew up playing golf with his dad and the bride he is about to marry is of Scottish descent, the birthplace of golf. [...]

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F.E.A.R.

August 1, 2010

It is simply fear which permeates our nation.  Here is the ultimate definition of fear; False Evidence Appearing Real. It seemed like the economy and the art selling world was back in the Spring.  I started selling again in galleries around the US after a long and protracted period of just nothing.  The run-up in [...]

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Nectar of the Gods

July 20, 2010

Of the many things I am obsessed with, olive oil is one of them. For my taste, Greek olive oil is my fave. To me it has the best taste, but this may be because I travelled solo to Greece a few times and Athens and Crete opened my eyes to the Mediterranean world and [...]

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Foxes and Hedgehogs

July 16, 2010

The play, “RED” is about the painter, Mark Rothko, one of the celebrated abstractionists of the New York school, of which   Rothko and Jackson Pollack were part of.  Rothko the Intellect, with those brooding color fields pulling you in and dousing you with his darkness and mournful miasma.   The deep sadness and depressing [...]

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As Time Goes By

July 14, 2010

I saw a photo of President Obama exiting Air Force One the other day.  He was looking down, mindful of his steps on the stairway, but for the first time I saw something I had never seen in this president — utter fatigue. He looked puffy, and much older than what he looked like just [...]

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Pizza Venezia

July 12, 2010

There’s gold in the dusty closet.  And pizza.   Just unearthed this fun painting made after a trip to Venice ten years ago.  When you go to Venice, a definite human wonder of the world, you walk everywhere.  You work the shoe leather and although you can get temporarily lost, the place is too small [...]

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