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.”
Before iphones
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artist’s Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Below are selected lists from the exhibit by prominent artists. See more here.
The D section from Alexander Calder’s address book. ca. 1926-38.
Eero Saarinen letter to Aline B. (Aline Bernstein) Saarinen, 1954.
Leo Van Witsen, Costume list with fabric swatches, Nov. 6, 1948.
Frederick Hammersley, Notes on “An Idea”
Gordon Newton asks Sam Wagstaff for $100 for rent, materials, food, and bad habits.
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.”
