Distractions / Abwechslungen


On Changing Tastes and Mannerist Prints – May 12, 2023

What’s new? “Fake News” in Florida … – April 20, 2023

History doesn’t end – April 18, 2023

Galaxie and Underwood: new works on paper by Victoria Burge – October 3, 2022

DoCUMENtA FiFTEEN: An Obituary in two parts – 2. Scorched Earth – July 27, 2022

DoCUMENtA FiFTEEN: An Obituary in two parts – 1. “The Best Documenta Ever” – July 26, 2022

What Dr. Barnes saw – July 13, 2022

What Dürer saw – July 8, 2022

Aren’t All Artists Self-Taught? – May 27, 2022

“F*** You!” or: Poussin and Pogo – April 26, 2022

Before and Beyond Photography – February 23, 2022

Schiller – February 18, 2022

Pulling Thorns – February 1, 2022

Nature into Art – January 24, 2022

Presentism – January 17, 2022

Tinkering toward Perfection – December 21, 2021

Experiments in Tonal Printing – December 7, 2021

On Giving Thanks and Making Mistakes – November 25, 2021

Left-Handed Year – November 15, 2021

Haggling in Hotels – November 3, 2021

ManhattoLand – November 1, 2021

Halloween – October 27, 2021

Mannerist Lines: Drawn, Printed, and Drawn Again – October 19, 2021

Rebooting Dürer: Then and Now – October 1, 2021

Master Printer – The Prequel II: Master Book Printers – September 14, 2021

The Humility of Connoisseurship: for Eberhard Kornfeld – September 7, 2021

Florilegium – Blütenlese II: Flower Children – August 31, 2021

Florilegium – Blütenlese I: ca. 1800 – August 24, 2021

Master Printer – The Prequel I: Formschneider – August 18, 2021

Antipastoral – August 3, 2021

Melancholic Musings – July 28, 2021

A Romantic Friendship Portrait – July 21, 2021

Synesthesia – June 9, 2021

Studiolo, or: We Have Moved – June 2, 2021

Rembrandt and the Jews – May 19, 2021

WALL-E, Widgets, and what all of this has to do with online fairs and U-boats – May 14, 2021

Dutch Mannerism – May 7, 2021

Connectivities – April 28, 2021

More Portraits, Disgruntled Sitters, and an Intervention – April 21, 2021

Scooping up an Ocean – April 7, 2021

To Catch a Thief II – March 31, 2021

To Catch a Thief I – March 24, 2021

Portraits I – March 17, 2021

Street Art: The Prequel – March 10, 2021

Wormholes, or: The Edible Matrix – March 3, 2021

Print Connoisseurship III: What is a Good Impression? – February 24, 2021

Print Connoisseurship II: Condition Issues – February 17, 2021

Magick, Matrix, and the Market – February 10, 2021

Print Connoisseurship I – February 3, 2021

(Virtual) Print Fair(s) – January 27, 2021

Primary and Other Sources – January 19, 2021

The Act of Drawing – January 12, 2021

Sternsinger – January 6, 2021

die Weynachten – December 23, 2020

Donald Judd und die alten Meister- an essay – December 16, 2020

Nightfall(s) – December 8, 2020

Mixing Media – December 1, 2020

Gothic Turkeys – November 24, 2020

Images and Words – November 17, 2020

Interesting Times – November 3, 2020

Street Art – October 27, 2020

Field Studies – October 22, 2020

Sacred Image or Branded Content – October 13, 2020

IFPDA Print Fair – October 7, 2020

A New Order of Things – September 29, 2020

Doodles in the Sand – September 22, 2020

Constables Rainbow and a Bird with a Wooden Wing – September 15, 2020

The Money Devil – September 9, 2020

Racing Standstill – September 1, 2020

A “Riesenholzschnitt” – August 25, 2020

Painterly Woodcuts – August 11, 2020

Bibel in Bildern – August 4, 2020

In Praise of Awkward Etchings – July 28, 2020

Learning from Diogenes – July 21, 2020

A Note on the Readability of Abstract – July 13, 2020

Landscape Prints II: The Germans at Home – June 24, 2020

Landscape Prints I: The Germans in Rome – June 22, 2020

Printed Portraits, Then and Now – June 12, 2020

Shall I Quit Instagram? – June 8, 2020

Paradigm Shifts and Printmaking – June 3, 2020

Play-Dohnic Ideas and Ideal Lines – May 27, 2020

Frans Floris and Flemish Drawing – May 22, 2020

Vernissage – May 15, 2020

The Goldweigher’s Field – May 12, 2020

The Last Flourishing of the Burin – May 8, 2020

German Romantic Landscapes – May 5, 2020

Was Dürer Gay – May 1, 2020

Zinser on Art – April 29, 2020

Translational Prints I: Andreani – April 27, 2020

Friedrich to Rothko – April 24, 2020

German Baroque Drawings – April 22, 2020

Hermits as Patron Saints of Social Distancing – April 20, 2020

Dürer’s Fingerprint – April 17, 2020

An Early Drawing by Johann Christian Reinhart – April 15, 2020

The Origins of the Easter Bunny – April 12, 2020

Rembrandt’s “Three Crosses” – April 10, 2020

Prison Fantasies (Piranesi/Blondel) – April 8, 2020

Jan Lutma Triptych – April 6, 2020

Romantic Rock Stars – April 2, 2020

View onto the Bay of Naples (Balconies) – March 30, 2020

Hollar’s Muffs – March 27, 2020

Dürer and the Biedermeier (J.M.F. Geissler) – March 24, 2020