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Peter Walsh

Visual Arts Review: “Milton Avery” — The Slow But Steady Growth of an American Master

Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Milton Avery, peter-Walsh, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Visual Arts Book Review: “Florine Stettheimer: A Biography” — One of American Art’s Greatest Enigmas

The volume’s overarching goal is to restore Florine Stettheimer to what the biographer sees as her rightful reputation as one of the great American artists of the 20th century.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Florine Stettheimer, Florine Stettheimer: A Biography, peter-Walsh

Visual Arts Review: “Seeing Silicon Valley” — Our Future Dystopia?

This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Fred Turner, Mary Beth Meehan, Seeing Silicon Valley:, University of Chicago Press

Arts Remembrance: Art Critic and Historian Barbara Rose

At a time when ambitious women of any sort were often harshly criticized for pursuing a professional career, Barbara Rose only forged on.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Barbara Rose, peter-Walsh

Film Review: “Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER” — Homage to a Perpetual Rebel

The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Chris McKim., David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hugar, Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER

Visual Arts/Film Review: “Elliott Erwitt — Silence Sounds Good” — Far From Dull

Aside from making generalities about “making good photographs” and “earning a living,” celebrated photographer Elliott Erwitt steadfastly refuses to be drawn out.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Cargo Film, Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt -- Silence Sounds Good, Magnum, Photography

Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants

John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD —  all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Great Demon Kings, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone

Visual Arts Review: The Art of Kara Walker — A Mix of Cozy Charm and Historic Horror

How, as an African-American visual artist, do you represent something that no one wants to think about, much less look at? Kara Walker’s solution is ultimately an aesthetic one.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: civil-war, Kara Walker

Visual Arts Review: The National Academy of Design — Another New Chapter?

This fascinating exhibition surveys the entire history of the National Academy membership and, almost incidentally, provides a potent cross-section of the history of American art and its discontents.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design, National Academy of Design, New Britain Museum of American Art

Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to the Life and Work of Alfred Stieglitz

The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alfred Stieglitz, Jewish Lives, Phyllis Rose, Yale-University-Press

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