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Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VII
Sex, Drugs and Bad Writing

I hadn’t sent the novel out in a while. In fact, I hadn’t sent it out in months. What was the point? Even if they loved it, they didn’t want it. At this point I was too dispirited to send the work out or describe the ensuing demoralization. But I needed to send it out in order to have some fresh rejection to write about. Otherwise I had nothing to say, and with these exaggerations and...

OUTSIDE LA: Nicole Eisenman
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

by Shana Nys Dambrot

It’s one thing to engage in a discourse about the influence of art historical movements on contemporary painters, and another still to analyze a particular artist’s specific set of influences, such as Nicole Eisenman’s robust relationship with the European Impressionists at the advance of the 20th century. But leave it to an art museum in Arles to organize an extensive embodiment of this...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part V
A Tiresome Outpouring of Fribbling Expatiations

by John Tottenham

I don’t know how to create the impression of time passing. But it passed, weeks passed by, during which nothing much happened. The sense of futility engendered by these dealings with the literary establishment hung over other potential undertakings. There didn’t seem to be much justification for this ongoing expenditure of waste, otherwise known as literary endeavor. More than four years were...

Art Writer/Author Frances Colpitt Dies
(1952–2022)

by Michael Delgado

Frances Colpitt, renowned art historian, author, curator, feature writer and contributing editor for Art in America for over 20 years; teacher and mentor, died in her Fort Worth, TX, home September 12, 2022. Colpitt, who recently retired from her position as the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History, Texan Christian University School of Art was working on a third book about minimalism and...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part IV
Wasted Words

by John Tottenham

One sends out this precious, all too precious, closely guarded work to complete strangers: they might initially take an interest, but after being presented with the entire manuscript, they can’t be bothered to get back to you at all, not even with a brief cordial rejection note. It makes one doubt the quality of the work. I started to re-read the work that has been the cause of all this...

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GALLERY ROUNDS: Jim Isermann
Miles McEnery Gallery

When I stepped into Jim Isermann’s spectacular show “Wrapture” presented by the Miles McEnery Gallery and the Pacific Design Center, my first thought was, “It’s 1967 again,” — and I don’t mean in a self-conscious, retro-chic way. Isermann’s super-saturated bright...

GALLERY ROUNDS: “Before You Now”
Riverside Art Museum

“Before You Now” features work by 56 artists who employ photography, prints, drawings, installations and video to depict themselves, their identities and, especially, their artistic perspectives. Rather than creating traditional self-portraits, these symbolic,...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Paige Jiyoung Moon
Steve Turner

With unruffled confidence, Paige Jiyoung Moon’s, “Gen 3” reveals small-scale acrylic paintings depicting informal rituals from her daily life with a profusion of care. Most of the time memories get packed away, but in this case, Moon’s style of painting makes the...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Karla Diaz
18th Street Arts

Karla Diaz has been drawing since she was a child. The title of her current exhibition, “Wait 'til Your Mother Gets Home,” is something her aunt would say to her when she would draw on the walls of the family home. Consisting of 37 paintings and works on paper that,...

Anne Austin Pearce: Her Blue Period
River Deep–Mountain High at Founders Gallery at Soka University, Aliso Viejo

What is a colorist painter? In the 19th century, the painter and critic Eugène Fromentin assessed that the work of colorist artists engage hues that are “rare, tender, or powerful, but resolutely [achieved by] a man skillful in feeling distinctions, or in rendering...

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