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“African Cemetery for Black Residents of Rye Town and Black Civil War Veterans”
Discovery in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye (NY) About ten years ago, while jogging through the Greenwood Union Cemetery near my then home in Rye, New York, I stumbled upon a little mud track leading...
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Mammy and Myths, Oh Andy!
The Spectre that is Mammy I had a friend in college. She loved big hooped earrings, watermelons and fried chicken. But for the four years I knew her, she insisted she hated them all. Her public...
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The Power of Art
Tanya. Portrait By Phone, from Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s personal diary, 2011 New York — Ukraine — Los Angeles Art lovers who know their history, particularly the history of the marginalized, will recall...
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Knowing Each Other
Spectre (with lights) — without lights Changes As we head towards the end of the year, I find myself working more on my art, on learning how to use different materials and mediums and honing my drawing...
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Whales and Sharks Around The Big Apple
Horse Head’s Happy Dance Back in April 2013, I wrote an article that included information about the once terribly polluted Hudson River in New York State. Now the water near New York City is getting...
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Island of the Dead: New York City’s Hart Island
Panorama showing Hart Island (lower right) and City Island (left) in 2010. The large land mass at the top of the picture is the borough of the Bronx (Photo credit: wikipedia.org) Unless you are a...
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Lois Dodd: Painting the Ordinary World Around Her
One of my favorite Lois Dodd pieces is “Snow, Tree, Window,” 2014. It is so quiet in its simplicity. One of my favorite living landscape painters is Lois Dodd. I first learned about her through her...
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Landscape Painter Extraordinaire
I cannot get enough of Lois Dodd’s paintings! Here are some more of them. These images are from Hyperallergic’s article, “Beer with a Painter.” (I first introduced the artist here.) Dodd’s cow parsnip...
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Painting One Bird a Day — What a Project!
Painting one bird a day, and to scale too! Here is a two minute video about a mural that is to be completed by November 2015: What a project! Photo of Secretary bird © 2012, Ink Dwell, LLC.Filed under:...
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The Endless Fascination of Printmaking
This is one of my hand-made transfer prints. It is part of a Brooklyn rooftop graffiti scene. The boy in the painting was appropriated by the artist, Chris Stain, from the photographer, Martha Cooper....
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“African Cemetery for Black Residents of Rye Town and Black Civil War Veterans”
Discovery in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye (NY) About ten years ago, while jogging through the Greenwood Union Cemetery near my then home in Rye, New York, I stumbled upon a little mud track leading...
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