anyway anywhere anytime

I now have an official snow watching seat with a close view of the bird feeders to make these long upstate winters meditatively wondrous

Alexandria Deters
David Koresh (But I'm still waiting for the second coming...)", 2025, 2025
I'm Still Waiting for the Second Coming
Embroidery, thread, silk, shirt, found fabric
14.5 x 15.2 in

On View with BAE at NADA miami Dec 2-6

Updating my art writer resume but with 45 years of writing ion art and artists even updating the CV exhausted me

anyone noticed that younger gay figurative artists are all avoiding using “gay” or “queer” in their statements and press releases in what i assume is a strategy to avoid collapsing under the market dominance of Langberg and Fratino?

I’m always shocked, though, by how many younger visitors haven’t seen Paschke’s work—I end up pulling out my phone to show them images so they can grasp the ontology of her appropriation strategy.

On view through November 23 in “Seeking Complexity.”

When she called to tell me she was living in Brooklyn and reinventing herself as a painter, I was intrigued. Her painterly mash-ups of Ed Paschke and Betty Parsons are witty, perverse, and exhilarating to the eye.

Deborah Bright is best known as an art historian, queer theory writer, and teacher—she actually hired me for my first teaching job at RISD in the mid-90s. Her book The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire is a classic.

Deborah Bright
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in

Proud to be a New Yorker even if I have not lived full time in the city since 1999 (Cambridge, Houston and the Hudson Valley)

UMAN: AFTER ALL THE THINGS . . ., SEEKING COMPLEXITY, and WOODWORKERS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY . — Upstate Diary UMAN: AFTER ALL THE THINGS . . .  at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT,  through May 10, ‘26. SEEKING COMPLEXITY at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, NY,  through December 21, ‘25...

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Folk Rock
British Invasion
funk and soul
psychodelia
Glam
disco
Punk
new wave
no wave
post Punk
art rock
psychobilly
outlaw country
new romantics
grunge
rap
indie
freak folk
foxcore
queercore
les rock francais
twee

when I was growing up culturally music movements defined the passage of time, I started with a Donovan obsession and this list ends with Belle and Sebastian and their ilk. While there is still new music I care about like Orville Peck and St Vincent I can’t think of movements after the early 2000

Drawing from 2023 (pen, colored pencil, and collage)

I realize this isn't breaking news but it's insane that voting has begun and Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — is straight-up refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, whose opponent is an alleged serial sexual abuser funded by Trump-allied billionaires

Art Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair He replaces Clément Delépine, who announced his departure last month

Art Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair

Just what I needed

Skip Art for No Kings come see me tomorrow Sunday

Harrison Tenzer Octopus

I was in my chicken coop, scraping poop off the roosting bars before heading to the train to go to the metropolitan opera tonight and hear the electrifying belle canto arias in La Sonnambula. Am i living in a Willa Cather story substituting the Hudson Valley for the plains of Nebraska ?

come visit

Anatomy Lesson No.82, 30x30, oil on linen, heading to Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA.

First time visiting the Norman Rockwell museum which seems explicitly to celebrate all the civic virtues lost today

opening day of seeking complexity