This photo is of my birth Mother, Francoise, at age 25.
A writer whose work fascinated and delighted my while I was in college, Kurt Vonnegut, was addressing an assembly of art students at a convocation. He has some advice for them, he said, on how to tell your parents that you want to be an [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Genetic Artistic Predisposition
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Pitman Painters: The Show; The Real Ones
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The story of the Ashington Group is an inspirational and uplifting one. The Group was composed of Northumbrian coal miners in the early 1930s. Their world was one of ten-hour shifts for two pounds and six shillings a week of work in darkness, dust and hard, hard work. There were over a million minors working [...]
Art is Mankind’s Oldest Artifact
Thursday, July 10, 2008
There is a fascinating story in the June 23rd, New Yorker magazine. It is called First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us? It is written by Judith Thurman and it is an incredible read. It concerns the art of the earliest humans, done at least 32,000 years ago soon after Homo [...]