I watched the vice presidential debate last night and it put me in an awful mood. At least it was a good reminder that politics are boring, politicians are boring, lies are boring, populism is boring, MSNBC is boring, terrorists are boring, the economy is boring, women are boring, men are boring and America is boring.
Komar and Melamid's classic, America's Most Wanted Painting
Matthew Cerletty's work seems particularly comforting and vital at the present moment. Above is his drawing Lincoln, 2005
Elizabeth Peyton's portrait of Al Gore
Andy Warhol
Jonathan Horowitz, my hero
Horowitz
Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors
Matthew Cerletty
Cerletty's drawing, John Wilkes Boothe
Ricci Albenda
Ed Ruscha
Horowitz
Sheila Pree Bright
Gilbert Stuart
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When I taught little kids for a short period during college, I was flipping through some art history book in front of a kid and his mother. I flipped past the page with "America's Most Wanted" painting on it. She stopped me and made me flip back to it. She points at it and says "Now THAT's a nice painting." Not Botticelli. Not Van Gogh. That.
true on all counts, Sam. P.S. When I first moved to NYC I was nearly matthew cerletty's roommate, but I thought that having a bedbug-infested decaying hovel in shitty-ass queens was preferable to paying an extra hundred a month to live in downtown manhattan with a well-regarded artist. Live and learn!
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