Archive | December 31, 2009

Developing sino-criticism

by on December 31, 2009 in Artworld Salon



While taking a brief vacation from the cold this past week (in Panama of all places; as an aside, the rapid and apparently unconstrained development of Panama City since 2003 is a phenomenon worth looking at) I finally had the opportunity to plow through Martin Jacques’s When China Rules The …

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Chaim Soutine’s Carcass Paintings – Part 1

by on December 31, 2009 in Art & Perception



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The artist Chaim Soutine’s still life paintings of animals, what I prefer to call his carcass paintings, can be unsettling, especially given the fact that Soutine was known to have never worked from memory, but rather used live, or dead, models for all …

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Happy New Year!

by on December 31, 2009 in New Art

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