National Poetry Month at South Boston Public Library

April is National Poetry Month, and for that reason, South Boston Arts Association members Dorothy Morris and Susan Mahan have organized a Poetry Reading at the South Boston Public Library.  The Poetry Reading’s… Continue reading →

(Larry Rivers) is a machine like Mozart that has gone haywire and cannot stop producing symphonies, sonatas, everything beautifully clothed in colors… -John Ashbery

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To desire to make a style is an apology for one’s own anxiety. -Willem de Kooning

Smear & Smudge: The tear-stained letters of Rivers and O’Hara (Sketchbook Today)

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It was already almost dark. I would never, by choice, live just over a time line, on the west side of the line. All year long, your days are too short. -Travis McGee (through John D. MacDonald in Cinnamon Skin)

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If you can’t make art more important than a clock, you have no business taking up a wall. -Harold Heinrich

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What I prefer to shine a bright light on is a book I’m reading, where I can experience life, at last. -Larry Rivers

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Motherwell in Studio

There is a double-page shot of artist Robert Motherwell in studio as a promotion for the ADAA Art Show and Ameringer McEnery Yohe in this month’s (March 2011) Art in America that is… Continue reading →

Sketchbook Today: Wednesday Night at Caroline’s

Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol

Liz #5 to go on the auction block in May for an estimated $30 million. Full story on MSNBC: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42252001/ns/today-entertainment/ Is it a portrait or a history painting? Warhol’s version of religious iconography… Continue reading →

Reading: Pronto by Elmore Leonard

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A corset is like a condom for your eyes. -Larry Rivers

Sketchbook Today: Apples

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I don’t believe in composition. I don’t mean this in the way people say they don’t believe in God. There is salvation, but not in losing oneself in composition. -Larry Rivers

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In Progress: Snakes 2

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You know, those heels, the ones a bit too high and certainly uncomfortable, but luck and common sense are stuck in the back of your carry-on bag.   And yes, there is a… Continue reading →

Monet Late Work wins award from AICA

In recognition of the first place award Paul Hayes Tucker just received from the AICA recognizing Claude Monet: Late Work as the best show in a commercial gallery in New York for 2010,… Continue reading →

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In Progress: Ascent