This excerpt is from a book Peter Dudek is writing about his years in academia, teaching art. Many of the conversations and stories came about in class, during faculty meetings, or over dinner & drinks with other artists who teach.
Artist’s Notebook
The postman’s palace in hauterives
Contributed by Ken Buhler / Imagine the most elaborate, fanciful and bizarre fairy-tale like sand castle possible. Ferdinand Cheval’s masterpiece, Le Palais Idal, is teeming with, octopi, dragons, ostriches, flamingos, lions, elephants, deer, plants, gods, fairies, giants, and historical figures all interwoven with architectural forms whose references include Hindu, Buddhist, and Egyptian temples, Islamic mosques, and Swiss chalets.
About an image, without an image: Reflections on looking at a painting
Contributed by Paul DAgostino / Not long ago, an acquaintance on social media posted an image of a recent painting in one of those temporary-story-style series of images, and I reacted favorably, at first with emoji-tive enthusiasm, to that particular painting. I then got an unexpected response pretty quick-like: What do you see?
Heather Bause Rubinstein: America and me
Contributed by Heather Bause Rubinstein / I left New York in January of 2020 and sublet my studio with plans to return in April. I […]
Anywhere Out of the World: Chagall and me
Contributed by Susan Bee / The early paintings of Marc Chagall are a recent inspiration. It�s a strange turn. For years I thought I disliked […]
Memory: Mystery Car Rides
Contributed by Benito Esquenazi / In the twenty years that I was not painting I maintained a connection to my creative process by drawing and […]
Radical reorientation: Rural life, politics, and a pandemic in Joshua Tree
Contributed by Mary Addison Hackett / “How’s everyone doing?” is the occasional check-in I see posted among artist friends who haven’t completely jumped the Facebook […]
What good is abstract painting now?
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Without any bombs exploding or even a single shot fired, the world we knew before COVID has gone poof. Sure, […]
Radical reorientation: Leaving New York
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Joy Garnett, an artist I met via her formidable art blog NEWSgrist (“where spin is art”) in the early art […]
Quick study: The quiet city
Contributed by Sharon Butler / How’s everyone doing out there? The streets of New York have calmed down in the past few weeks, with far […]
Remote: Teaching art online
Contributed by Peter Plagens / Serious studio art classes cannot be taught online. Oh, they can be “taught” — if the professors and students accept, […]
The political power of art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In a typically penetrating New York Times column earlier this month, David Leonhardt pointed out that one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s many […]
Instagram: Evening at Mar-a-Lago
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This weekend, as hundreds of thousands of mad pink-hatters gathered around the world to protest the underhanded, misogynistic, and essentially anti-citizen […]
Undergraduate Sketchbook: December 2017
About the artist: Phoebe Funderburg-Moore uses her sketchbook like a visual diary, reflecting on experiences and collecting her thoughts. Along with the sketchbook practice, Phoebe […]
Undergraduate Sketchbook: Phoebe Funderburg-Moore
“The practice of making my art public is a new one, because often drawing is a coping mechanism for me. Scanning & posting my drawings […]
