Monthly Archives: November 2011

Come see your Rome that weeps

Posted on November 16, 2011 by David

So, last week I picked up a contemporary, strongly-hyped realist novel that I wasn’t planning to actually read, but was deeply pulled in by the opening.  It did what fiction does; it tells something true and makes something up at the … Continue reading →

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Willem de Kooning and revision

Posted on November 1, 2011 by David

Woman I gives me a chill whenever I see it, but the context of MoMA’s current de Kooning retrospective made me feel as though I were seeing it again for the first time. I loved everything about this show, from the clear … Continue reading →

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