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My review of The Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty (Buenaventura, 2009) is now up at du9 in both English and French.

Sonic Youth‘s most recent album, “Rather Ripped,” has a song called “Helen Lunderberg”. Over an almost tribal marching band drum the lyrics begin: Helen Lundeberg illusory landscape five decades of paint A couple of weeks ago (yes, it took awhile for me to post this) I finally looked up the name. Not surprisingly, Helen Lundeberg [...]

Andrei Molotiu pointed me towards the works of Pierre Alechinsky, a painter I was not familiar with, though I have heard of the group he was associated with, COBRA (some of whom later went on to join with parts of the Lettrist group to form the Situationist International). A quick Google Image search will bring [...]

I posted previously about Cy Twombly’s work. As I was returning the monograph on him I had back to the library, I scanned two images to share. The first is a “polyptych in 9 parts” called “Nine Discourses on Commodus” (1963). I’d imagine my interest in it is obvious. Layed out as it is on [...]

The fiancée and I took a daytrip up to New York City yesterday. Other train riding and walking, we had three objectives: visit the MoMA, eat dinner, and head over to Brooklyn to visit Rocketship Comics. I haven’t been to the MoMA for more years than I can remember (I think a trip with my [...]

Mark Tansey is, hands down, one of my favorite painters. His works are thematically/conceptually rich, beautifully painted, and narrative. They often deal with matters of representation, art theory, and texts. Titles like “Derrida Queries de Man”, “The Triumph of the New York School”, “Close Reading”, and “The Bricoleur’s Daughter” should give you an idea about [...]