Brainard Carey

An Artist Life Means Putting Your Guts Out Into The World

The formula for a life well lived might look something like this: Dive in head…

Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

Art is, or it should be, about more than simply making marks on a surface…

Far Reaching Effects Of Visual Culture In Our World Of Appearances

Dusty book stall archeologist and writer Jonathan Guyer oversees the far reaching effects of visual…

AI Induced Shifting Subtexts- What Is And What Isn’t Art?

Let's go back to 2016 and re-consider how the works highlighted below are more relevant…

Important Thoughts On Altruism

Humans possess a great depth of capacity when it comes to altruism. Again and again,…

Why Artists Require Space Not Only To Work But To Imagine

Eiko Otake performing at Bartram’s Garden on the Schuylkill River. “The purpose of art is…

Unique Angles view How We Communicate

Look with great honesty at your inner life Contemplate the ways in which you approach…

LGBTQIE And Ecosexuality

Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais…

British MPs Say Government Too Slow To Help These At Risk Arts

A friend of mine from Europe sent me this news story a couple of weeks…

Misconception That Education Is End Of Road

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” -Socrates There…

Thoughts On Rejection And Concept Of Groundlessness

Rejection. “We lived in Northern New Mexico. I was standing in front of our house…

Surreal Aspects Of All Expressed In Artwork

Many have been humbled simply standing in a darkened field and looking to the stars.…

Theft Of Artist Ideas May Not Be Theft At All

Recently, one of my readers wrote that "there is another kind of generosity that comes…

Artwork That Reminds Us History Is Absolute

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding…

Natural World Immediacy A Rare Concept

Immediacy? “Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen.…

Ancient Zen Story About Re-framing Failure Applies To Grant Applications

When thinking about grant writing, it helps to first consider this story that tells about…

In These Days Of Alternative Fact And Secrecy It Is Difficult To Hold On To Truth

The shape of truth is often difficult to discern. It bends and shifts or is…

Light Informs Art In Ways That Cannot Be Disentangled

We sit in the grip of deep winter, snow reflecting the moonlight at last. At…

Light, Interviews, Books to Inspire, And A Call To Artists From Rome

Consider for a moment the nature of light and time. Fleeting, infinite, unknowable, and yet…

Boston Based Artist Jeannie Motherwell Draws Structures From Uncertainty

Dear Artist, Aristotle differentiated humans from their animal counterparts by dint of logos, the power…

Poetic Grace Gesture Is Needed In All Art Work

Dear Reader, it is difficult to deny that a side of art making is fatally…

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