Picard’s Comment
“The situation of a woman as a painter in NY (at my age) is not easy to handle,” Picard (1899-1994) wrote in her diary, in 1960. “The Cedar Bar and the Club are run by cliques and only young and pretty girls are wanted around, it’s a rat race and a racket of the worst sort.”
Alone?
The work of the Israeli painter Maya Gold. If you understand Hebrew, watch this video interview with her.
A Definition of Art
Art is not meant to give pleasure but to ask questions and make people think.
- Christian Boltansky
Wilhelm Sasnal
Untitled , 2005, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2002, oil on canvas
Desert, 2002, oil on canvas
Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal
Same Hill, Different Day
Paul Octavious says, “For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.”




























