Home, Where I Want to Be: Roos Arts and CPW’s Take On Our Backyards

How do you want to live?  Just to get by, picked up and turned around 9 to 5 everyday? Where? In some convex combination of your imagination and the broader political world, the precise point where the breeding grounds for your ambition match perfectly the hopes you have for good days and better days for … Continue reading →

From Fascist, Progressivist and Liberal Art to Fallibilist Aesthetic Pluralism: Some Notes

Suppose the study of aesthetics is also the study of value. Accept, if you will, that art’s engagement with value lies at the core of High modernism.  That’s a simple one: Duchamp’s work and that of the Futurists makes that rather clear. So, accept that the art-value relationship foregrounds for every epochal turn or stylistic … Continue reading →

Gerardo Castro at Theo Ganz: Sex as Salve

Gerardo Castro’s paintings, diptychs and triptychs, all, on view at the Theo Ganz Studio, are luscious, sensual objects, red, brown, dark, erotic, textual and tactile.  You can read off them as much as you might get when you gaze upon them. I know you’ll want to touch them. Oil paintings on linen and wood that … Continue reading →