Choose your attitude
Dear Artist, Andrew and Debra Veal started rowing their 23-foot plywood boat across the Atlantic.…
Monthly Archives: July, 2003
Time to choose?
Dear Artist, Yesterday, my studio computer jingled with a question that concerns a lot of…
Form them up
Dear Artist, In the good old days, students in art schools were provided with simple…
The naive choice
Dear Artist, The last letter was about calculated carelessness — this one’s about calculated naivete.…
Sprezzatura
Dear Artist, The Italians have a name for it — Sprezzatura — studied carelessness –…
Your creative truth
Dear Artist, Scrabbling around in mountains is good for you. Among other things, I’m having…
A Mutt decision
Dear Artist, In 1912, Marcel Duchamp took a urinal, signed it R. Mutt and put…
High exaltation
Dear Artist, “It’s a rough mountain pathway of boulders and roots, Where the greatest of…
Edgemanship
Dear Artist, I’m still in Toronto. Visiting a group show. Crowded. Abstract. Realism. Artbabble. Artspeak.…