Friday
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Sunset, Friday, 15 January 2010
Happy Birthday, MLK. My parents – even my parents made us shut up and listen to that speech, on the radio on the way back from the beach.
Following from yesterday’s mention of Andy Warhol: Something I appreciated, as a painter and in a larger way as an artist, was Louis Menand’s essay on Warhol in the January 11th New Yorker. While commenting, more or less, on recent books about Warhol, Menand manages to distill the history of contemporary art criticism. For anyone like me who missed the meeting about Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and what has come after, it’s a brilliantly accessible and illuminating short course.
Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 06:30PM | by BVD | in Sunset Paintings | tagged Andy Warhol, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Bezilla Van Doren, Louis Menand, MLK, Martin Luther King Day, The New Yorker, Theodore Van Doren, aesthetics | | Comments Off