April 2009
2 posts
READ POEMS, EAT TOAST!
All I have to say to anybody worrying about how art will fare in our crummy new future is: READ POEMS. Back a few years ago I cherished a small hope that I could figure out a way to get important poets paid like important visual artists, but I take that back. Now we are all going to be paid like poets if we get paid at all. If poets can make work under a no-money, nobody cares about you...
March 2009
2 posts
Paperback Novels
Last night I saw this Richard Baker painting on the shelf, behind the front desk at a gallery where another artist was the main dish. (Gregory Lind Gallery, SF) I’ve seen Baker’s work before, it’s pitch perfect and New Yorkishly dry but last night it struck me harder as this tiny little lighthouse of sanity, modesty and reverence for things that actually matter in a world thigh...
September 2008
1 post
What Will We Do Without David Foster Wallace?
Last Sunday, I heard that the writer David Foster Wallace killed himself. There wasn’t much information for a few days, leaving those of us who weren’t lucky enough to be his students or colleagues wondering what happened. And really sad. I heard that he has struggled with depression for at least 20 years, and has been fighting off an evil round of it the last few months. This...
April 2008
3 posts
Will Yackulic in San Francisco
Will Yackulic’s new work (“A Prompt & Perfect Cure” at Gregory Lind in San Francisco April 1- May 17, 2008) is a homemade charm/prayer that might actually work because it admits right up front that it doesn’t believe in quick fixes. The title of the show kicks up tiny ironic sparks against the labor-intensive method of these drawings. They clearly take forever to make, so there isn’t much...