Browse by Title:
- The Economy of Magritte
- Schnabel at the Legion
- A Favorite: portrait of John the Fearless
- Boucher and downward
- July 1: Twombly & Rembrandt, like/unlike
- June 24: learning from not so good
- June 17: those monuments
- June 10: Cezanne’s audacity
- June 3: a favorite: Seurat’s Pierrot
- May 27: Rothko’s touch
- May 20: “Burning a Heretic” by Sassetta
- May 13: distance
- May 6: a favorite: Barbari’s plan of Venice
- April 29: Derain’s experiments
- April 22: Monet’s strong beginning
- April 15: Bliss and/or Ensor
- April 8: Jack Ziegler
- date: two faces
- March 25: love them waterlilies
- March 18: Fitz Hugh Lane, early and late
- March 11: Harnett and Peto
- March 4: newer and older
- Feb 25: Diane Arbus
- Feb 18: a wonderful Bosch
- Feb 11: a favorite Merian
- Feb 4: happy discoveries
- January 27: abstract and not
- date: this time, Parmigianino
- Jan 16: Again
- January 14: Titian’s odd edges
- Jan 7: perfect art
- resting
- Dec. 17: Dylann Roof’s selfie
- Dec. 10: Kensett early and late
- Dec. 3: Arno’s “Cabaret”
- November 26: Rosso scores
- Nov. 19: an unexpected gem
- March 10 Arcimboldo
- Nov. 5: an absurd “Hals”
- Oct 29: those English!
- Oct. 22: Joke (or not)
- October 15: pairing
- October 8: holding the eye
- Oct. 1: Magritte’s elegance
- Sept. 24: the way we live
- Sept. 17: at sea
- September 10: “Girl With Gloves”
- Sept 3: glockenspiel delight
- August 27: dipping into SFMOMA
- August 20: better, definitely better
- August 13: St. Jerome in his study
- August 6: Saturn, one way or other
- July 30: Brace’s Cove
- July 9: Bacon, Eisenstein, & Tonks
- July 2: cats
- June 25: Seurat thinks too much
- June 18: a favorite Lippi
- June 11: the more things change . . .
- June 4: Simonetta
- May 28: Cezanne & de Kooning
- May 21: Arthur Devis
- May 14: Audubon & Kline
- May 7: glorious decoration
- April 30: nudes and nudes
- April 23: the studiolo
- April 16: at the Whitney–fine and oh please!
- April 9: a Trump portait
- April 2: a favorite Fra Angelico
- March 26: Garza & Van Dyck
- March 19: Caravaggio v. Gentileschi
- March 12: copying the Mona Lisa, sort of
- March 5: Lady with a Unicorn
- Feb 27: portraits of Adowa
- Feb 20: Warhol’s Mao
- Feb 13: Close Favorites
- Feb 6: Schoengeur’s artful St. Anthony
- Jan 30: a favorite Desmazieres
- Jan 23: density in battle
- Jan 16: and speaking of Motherwell. . .
- Jan 9, 2016: Motherwell, with cavils
- 12/19: a train of thought
- Dec.12: A Favorite Bechtle
- Dec 5: Peanuts gone wrong
- Nov 27: fashion agony
- Nov. 21: Hiroshige’s many devices
- Nov. 14: debate cacophonies
- Nov. 3: piquant juxtaposition
- Oct. 24: Christ’s odd stomach
- Sept. 17: Gerard DuBois
- Sept. 26: a former Fragonard
- Sept. 19. Goya’s little spritz
- Sept. 12: Turner, the equivocal realist
- August 29: Boudin the bold
- August 15: a favorite still life
- August 8: the wacky notion of concepts
- August 1. things seen: caps and lids
- July 25: a favorite Robert Frank
- July 18: the oddness of Sargent
- July 11: El Anatsui
- July 4: old Brooklyn houses
- June 27: then the ho-hum things
- June 20: three wonderful things
- June 9: many faces
- May 30: hot wall labels at the deYoung
- May 23: Kollwitz and Levine whetting the scythe
- May 17: Art meets Labor
- May 4: A favorite: Sempe
- April 23: Pythagoras, Rubens, and me
- April 11: Nothing new here
- April 4: a favorite: Il Rosso
- March 27, 2015: Goya and Matisse: an odd rhyme
- August 2: two clocks by Adolph Loos
- July 26: Lawrence v. Gainsborough
- July 19: Matisse: a range of quality
- July 12: surfaces
- July 5: a favorite: Vuillard’s “The Conversation”
- June 28: art copies life, perhaps
- June 21: rising above “pictures”–or not.
- June 14: Newman grand but oddly wiggly
- May 31: screen shots from The Times
- April 26: Mark Adams on the small scale
- April 12: space as subject
- March 29: O’Keeffe’s small touch at Lake George
- March 15: a favorite: Thiebaud’s “Coloma Ridge”
- March 1: the bucolic meditations of George Stubbs
- February 15: Andries Both: wonderful drawings
- February 8: Beth Van Hoesen’s gentle eye
- January 25: framed
- January 18: Hockney’s variations
- January 11: the assurance of David Hockney
- January 4, 2014: a frozen room
- December 28: Ronald Searle war drawings
- December 21: a favorite van de Velde
- December 14: Norman Rockwell’s “walking to church”
- December 7: the redemptive suavity of Lucian Freud
- November 2: that naughty Balthus
- October 19: the big picture in snapshots
- October 12: open storage delights
- September 28: visual mishmash in the America’s Cup
- September 21: a van Gogh all of a sudden worth looking at?
- September 14: Stubbs and the rubbing-down house
- September 7: the Payne Sisters & Mom
- August 31: an unexpected delight: “slab man”
- August 24: French drawings at the Cantor
- July 6: a favorite: The Peaceable Kingdom
- June 29: Diebenkorn: the Berkeley Years
- June 22: perspective oddity of Saenredam
- June 15: the crafty art of Booth
- June 8: an artful pairing: Manet & Thiebaud
- June 1: a favorite: the quiet vision of James Weeks
- May 25: an artist’s reputation
- May 18: defining the subject
- May 4: a favorite: the ingenious Hokusai
- April 27: nothing: it’s a concept
- April 20: boldness (Matisse again)
- April 13: Rembrandt’s narrative attitude
- April 6: a favorite: Ensor’s “Expulsion”
- March 30: Matisse & those old-time devices
- March 23: Matisse scores
- March 16: Matisse bungles one?
- March 9: Loran on Cezanne’s compositions
- March 2: a painting in progress: “dancers rehearsing”
- February 23: the odd face of the Rokeby Venus
- January 5, 2013: a favorite: Mrs. Richard Yates
- November 3 portraiture in armor
- September 15 Elisofon and Motherwell
- August 18 Rockwell’s craft
- May 5 a favorite: “Old Woman” by Memling
- March 31 battle
- March 24 what’s around us
- March 17 Seurat: where to stop
- March 3 Gail Chadell Nanao
- February 11 who can think of it?
- Jan 13 non-cuddly rulers
- December 24 Tang rider
- December 10 Dunstan
- December 3: processions
- October 29 the Great Wall
- October 1 self-portraits
- September 24 Kenjilo Nanao
- September 15 tacky, tacky
- August 13 art & life
- August 6 portraits
- July 30 my best work