On Loneliness and Love By Max Blue, WTP Guest Writer One speaks often of the feeling of being alone in a crowd, but rarely of keeping company in solitude. Sometimes, I think my whole life has been a slow adjustment to an acute sense of alienation toward the world around me, an experience of having…
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The Limits of Likeness
Art and Visual Processing By Carolyn Anderson, WTP Guest Writer In 1954 ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed that herring gull chicks instinctively pecked at red spots on their parents’ bills to beg for food. At the time, the dominant idea in animal behavior was that learning was more important than instinct. Tinbergen argued that animals are…
The Traditional as Modernist Approach
Modernism in a Post-Modern Era By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer There was a good deal of enthusiasm surrounding the late Andrew Forge’s exhibit this summer at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City, but its title “The Limits of Sight” seemed mistaken. My first reaction was, whoever titled this show was making the…
Calder and Warhol, From Two Opposing Worlds
Two Biographies Inform Each Other By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Reading Calder: The Conquest of Time required an adjustment of my habitual expectations of the reading of Jed Perl’s writing. I always enjoy his incisive critique and deflation of the art “powers that be.” I have spoken with many artists who are part of…
Innocence in Art
“Innocence is the ground of art, its very foundation” By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Recently, one of my paintings was included in a curated show at an art center in Vermont. I had no great hopes for the work being purchased or written about, as it was too far from the art circles of…
An Anatomy Lesson
The Master’s “Mistake” By Rebecca McGraw Thaxton, M.D., WTP Guest Writer I am a general practitioner and my husband is a surgeon. One morning at breakfast I placed a picture of Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson” in front of him and said, “What do you think?” His eyes went immediately to the dissected forearm, and he reflexively…
Artists in The Big Apple
Innovative Artists at Artexpo NY By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief April 16th, I attended the annual Arts Expo in New York City, over on Pier 94. For 38 years, the Art Expo has presented itself as a focal point for artists each spring in the big apple. Over the course of four days, literally thousands flock to…
The Creative Curse
By Gerry Aldridge The drug of creativity is not a need. It is a part of who I am. # The constant transitioning from writer to sculptor is metamorphic every time. And though I say constant, there may be months and even years between each transition. I have two passions, which I must vent, but I cannot give 100%…