At 4:18 PM on November 2, 2022, Carolyn Zick, the artist and renowned and pioneering art blogger, passed away at her home in New London, Connecticut.
Tag: Dangerous Chunky
Recent posts: Two Coats of Paint
How do you spend money?
The fundraising campaign is off to a good start — thanks to readers who have already contributed. With your generous support, we will continue to […]
A noble thief — a true New Yorker
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Whether as Barton Fink in the Coen Brothers’ eponymous film, Herb Stempel in Quiz Show, or John Stone in The Night Of, John Turturro has wielded haplessness as a tool of disarmament. Never has he done it so deftly as in Noah Segan’s neo-noir indie instant classic The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. It’s a mordant tribute to New York City then, now, and forever – but especially then, circa 1995 – spiritually akin to a Nora Griffin painting. Turturro is Harry Lehman, a smooth analog bandit in a graceless digital world. He doesn’t use cell phones or any other contemporary accoutrements and doesn’t want to. He has gotten along like a wilier Ralph Kramden, living in a kip in The Bronx, caring stoically for his catatonically disabled wife – which tracks more as New Hollywood angst than warped humor – and fencing his daily yield through a pawn shop run by an old friend named Ben of kindred throwback sensibilities, played to grimily honorable perfection by, inevitably, Steve Buscemi.
Jan Dickey: Bold events
Contributed by Lucas Moran / Painting has died a thousand ersatz deaths, but artists are not immune to despair. Many of us are wondering what it’s all for. Nobody is buying art and we’re all grappling with media addiction. Through a haze of distress and distraction over political and cultural collapse, it’s tempting to dismiss traditional arguments for the importance of art even as a refuge from crisis. But that’s the attitude the billionaires and robots want us to adopt, wresting us so completely from joy and beauty that we remain glued to our tiny screens, held captive by reminders and notifications. Some of us keep trying to show anyone willing to look up that the world is a much bigger place. Rauschenberg achieved that kind of jolt in the 1950s with Monogram – a taxidermized Angora goat with a tire around its midsection, standing on a painted and collaged canvas laid horizontally on a platform. Perhaps to be an effective painter in the current existential mess, you need to show us your goat In his solo show “Compression” at D.D.D.D. gallery, Jan Dickey valiantly tries. His new large-scale works made me want to yell about painting what Dr. Frankenstein yelled about his monster: “It’s alive!”