Category: painting

• A Year in the Arts

  Dec 27

  We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›

• Opening(s): An Education

  Dec 16

  When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to have exclaimed, “New information for me.” If, like Dalí, fisting… more ›

• Xavier Villaurrutia on Abraham Ángel

  Nov 12

  At the beginning of November I was in Mexico City for a short holiday-cum-research trip. One of my research projects is to translate some of Xavier Villaurrutia’s theater pieces. Another… more ›

• Times Roman

  Jul 11

  Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical objects that I found compelling. Colosseo I Colosseo II Bernini’s… more ›

• Nothing Really Matters

  Jun 25

  Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters” was on heavy rotation on British Airways on-flight music programming during the summer of 1998 while he enjoyed his summer break from teaching in Japan. He… more ›

• Embrace/Suffering

  Jun 13

  “Talent deprived of the gift of sorrow produces only near-values.” In 1932, John Graham completed Embrace, a 30 x 36 in. oil painting on canvas. It is held by The… more ›

• Sol Invictus

  Dec 21

  Anselm Kiefer’s Sol Invictus Kiefer is one of my favorite living artists, and I’m happy to live near Fort Worth, where many of his works are housed. I post this here… more ›