This is the third in a new series of poems and writing commissioned for Art and Everything After. Poets and writers chose from a selection of new drawings called companions. Ms. Abendroth selected the image above. A full size image can be seen here. According to Taste By Emily Abendroth You were not a prominent man, per se, but you had about… (read more)
Well, it has been a very interesting couple of days. My friend Tom runs a blog called The Good Men Project. He was putting together a edition of the blog on race. And he asked me to contribute. I should say that Tom and I have been friends for well over a decade. I’ve held… (read more)
I am getting ready to leave Istanbul. In a lot of ways, I have left already. I have sort of contracted into a ball here, walking around the city in the morning and coming back to the hotel in the afternoons to sleep for a few hours. Then going out in the evening for dinner… (read more)
Michael Kimmelman memorializes him in the NYTimes (and actually mentions his partner, Darryl Pottorf). For me, he is so incredibly important because he could do whatever he wanted. He exercised complete freedom in his work. When I saw the Guggenheim Retrospective in 1997 (so large that it filled the museum’s midtown and SOHO locations),… (read more)
I have a sketchbook that I take with me everywhere. I really pride myself on having a daily practice, but I gotta say I have not made a single drawing since I have been here. I have been so completely overwhelmed visually that I can’t even conceive of how to make a image right now…. (read more)
Let me reiterate: cops are the same all over the world. My friend and colleague, Noel Ignatiev says “All over the world cops beat up poor people; that is their job, and it has nothing to do with color.” I spent the majority of the day in my hotel room yesterday. In every country that… (read more)