An additional video clip of David Hockney commentary on Bruegel's masterpiece "Tower of Babel," which converges beautifully with a masterfully carved…
The concluding part of our profile of the nonagenarian hidden master Hans Noë, with a rich sampling from his prodigious late-life production; plus a…
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Another look at Breugel, this time a jumbo vantage by way of David Hockney...
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The life and work of Hans Noë, a remarkable heretofore largely unknown 95-year-old architect and sculptor, a Holocaust survivor and a true hidden…
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February 2023

Our brief flurry last week into the world of that dear centenarian Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1996) has had me delving into YouTube and thrumming wry…
Another of Ren's takes on the Delft master, and a convergent look back at the incomparable Nicolas Slonimsky’s travails as an immigrant music teacher…
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Cabineteers in L.A. should make their way to the downtown Broad Museum’s William Kentridge retrospective, which may well be The Show of the Year...
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Tolstoy and the psychopathology of Russian expansion, and Mailer on the American variant; a prior piece on the Penn and Teller doc "Tim's Vermeer…
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January 2023

Here’s a link to video of Ren’s Conversation with Google AI research maven Blaise Agüera y Arcas at the Hammer in LA last week: a friendly donnybrook…
Margaret Wertheim offers thoughts on the Egg at the Center of it All, then we resume consideration of the vast expanse, and expanses yet vaster, both in…
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Ren's West Coast book tour schedule; and the sublime Canadian musical stylist Lubalin, who scavenges his lyrics from amongst such found sources as kids…
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Another take on Mondrian, this one in the context of an Entire World Turned Upside Down; followed by consideration of a strange case of déjà…
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