New work by 94-year-old California Light and Space master Robert Irwin (now at the Pace Gallery); "All That Is Solid," with Rembrandt, Disney, Twain, Dylan, and Che Guevara...
Arriving a bit late at this newsletter (and only coming here because of the 1982 introduction to the works of Robert Irwin, and then an overly well-spaced series of subsequent encounters over the intervening 40 years; it can't be that long!), I'm saddened to hear of Mr. Irwin's increasing decline. The staff at Chinati/Marfa gave us some anecdotes indicating that the decline was in progress. It's been so hard, at a distant remove, to get abreast of most Irwin events. I wish we'd made it to this one in April. Now we plan to head out to Dia Beacon. The world does not place as many geniuses into our paths as we might like. Thanks to Lawrence Weschler, who in 1982 presented an example of The Real Thing, who has turned out to be realer even than I could have imagined. I know I wrote "thanks" at the beginning of the preceding sentence, and then put it within this sentence, too, but: Thanks.
Concerning the Putin propaganda image about having more children is the same one used by the third Reich - The recent book by Tim Snyder "The road to unfreedom : Russia, Europe, America" elaborates convincingly V Putin's connections to the ideology of Ilyin and other fascists. The similarity of imagery is most likely intentional.
Arriving a bit late at this newsletter (and only coming here because of the 1982 introduction to the works of Robert Irwin, and then an overly well-spaced series of subsequent encounters over the intervening 40 years; it can't be that long!), I'm saddened to hear of Mr. Irwin's increasing decline. The staff at Chinati/Marfa gave us some anecdotes indicating that the decline was in progress. It's been so hard, at a distant remove, to get abreast of most Irwin events. I wish we'd made it to this one in April. Now we plan to head out to Dia Beacon. The world does not place as many geniuses into our paths as we might like. Thanks to Lawrence Weschler, who in 1982 presented an example of The Real Thing, who has turned out to be realer even than I could have imagined. I know I wrote "thanks" at the beginning of the preceding sentence, and then put it within this sentence, too, but: Thanks.
Concerning the Putin propaganda image about having more children is the same one used by the third Reich - The recent book by Tim Snyder "The road to unfreedom : Russia, Europe, America" elaborates convincingly V Putin's connections to the ideology of Ilyin and other fascists. The similarity of imagery is most likely intentional.