Here’s my latest recommended viewing—Our City Dreams.  This is a 2008 art documentary by filmmaker Chiara Clemente featuring five NY-based female artists: Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero.  It’s a fascinating glimpse into these artists’ personal and professional lives over the course of two years.  It traces their struggles with recognition [...]

Not so long ago I discovered the writing of Minnesota native Siri Hustvedt.  She writes fiction as well as non-fiction and in both genres, she instills themes of art and art history (that is what first drew me to her writing).  The first Hustvedt novel I dug into was What I Loved–an unpredictable story about [...]

When I found this poem in a contemporary anthology, I knew I had to share it because there are many dog-lovers in my life.  It represents a beautiful marriage between art and our faithful four-legged friends: The Dogs in Dutch Paintings by David Graham How shall I not love them, snoozing right through the Annunciation? [...]

I recently had the pleasure of seeing Amir Bar-Lev’s fascinating 2007 documentary, “My Kid Could Paint That.“  It’s about Marla Olmstead, a girl from upstate New York and her unusually complex abstract paintings that have sold for thousands of dollars a piece.  Bar-Lev explores the controversy surrounding Marla’s art which hinges on whether she painted [...]