Jennifer Bartlett
Bartlett’s Rhapsody is a synthesis of nearly everything in art up until that moment, while anticipating many of the themes and ideas to come. It is my single favorite artwork of all time.
Tag: art
John Cage
John Cage chose music, he said, because “The people who heard my music had better things to say about it than the people who looked at my paintings had to say about my paintings.”
The Rose
I spent two years sitting in a room just a few feet from this legendary, notorious, monumental painting that weighs over a ton, back when it was entombed behind a wall. It only took four decades for me to reconnect with it and see it for real, in person.
Akira Kurosawa
When I was thirteen PBS ran The Seven Samurai and I was gobsmacked. “I was young but I realized that I was watching something extraordinary,” was how I put it to a newspaper interviewer years later. You could create a film school based entirely on his films.
Marcel Duchamp
One of the most important collections of Duchamp’s works is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just down the Expressway from where I was raised. I was a pre-teen with no significant art education, visiting the museum with my father, when we entered Gallery 182.