“Headmaster is an assignment-based queer print publication based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Smart and sexually provocative, Headmaster appeals to a discerning audience of man-lovers.” That’s what it says on their website and it is very true. I got a very sweet email (after a particularly shitty day teaching) from Jason Tranchida, one of the… (read more)
The permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of the Arts has an enormous influence on me. Like most kids in Detroit, I first went there on a school trip. (This was back when education included things like art and culture.) I was spellbound by the building itself. I stood on the stairs with my mouth… (read more)
Honestly, I was never a big fan of Lucian Freud. I learned to keep my mouth shut around most people. I nod politely when people start the “greatest painter” discussion around him. (This is especially difficult when people compare him to Titian, the mega daddy of all painters of the nude.) I think that a… (read more)
I saw a great show at ICA/Boston today (and it’s not Eva Hesse STUDIOWORK). Leslie Hewitt’s Riffs on Real Time is an elegant and somewhat haunting revelation. The elements are really simple and laid bare for examination. In a time when so much of photography has a lot to do with digital processes and a hackneyed… (read more)