A standard argument against representational painting in the modern age is that it has been superseded by photography. This argument is so i...

I haven't written "Gratitude, part I" yet. I've been meaning to for over a year. I guess I'm not the most grateful guy...

I happened to be looking recently at quite an old drawing - from 2005. This is already a long time ago! Here is the drawing: Daniel Mai...

This post responds to some things that people have been saying to me and about me over the past few years; not you, longtime and much-neglec...

Let me be candid with you. I don't really understand "The Wasteland." I have read it many times, though never in a rigorous wa...

Here is a photograph by Carolyn Marks Blackwood which I found moving and powerful. Nautical Twilight , Carolyn Marks Blackwood, photog...

Here’s a clear instance of a phenomenon I keep noticing in my drawings. I was at Lisa Dinhofer ’s life drawing workshop last night, where I ...

I have always had very good luck with artwork of Manou, a dancer who has, sadly, left New York. This is my first painting of her, which was ...

The Find When I was little and I read stories for young readers, the stories frequently emphasized that their characters were going on ...