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March 2009

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• 03.28.09
  ESSAY BY THE GREAT KNOX MARTIN, in praise of the Alpha Seer Citizens of Art Respond, Understanding Art | (0)

  Shortly after teaching at the Yale Graduate School—I left because of interim politics—I find myself teaching at the Art Students League, my alma mater, with hilarity in kiddo plangent ricochets. Meeting with an extraordinary cross-section of so-called artists, painters, sculptors, poets, and people like others. Seeing a thousand people, gigs at other universities and schools—I meet Mr. Ben Lau at the Art Students League—sort of like James Joyce meeting Svevo-—in his classroom, reading his effort and proclaiming “Sir, you are a genius”—I let fall this intelligence on Ben. I have said of Ben, “If you fell off a ladder—and your brush hit the wall—it would be beautiful.”What gives me the status, position, altitude to ...
• 03.28.09
  ESSAY BY MASTER OLIVIA MARTIN, in praise of the great Knox Martin Uncategorized | (0)

  Growing up with Knox, as my father, is an experience and adventure that is unique. My brother Jonathan, my sister Alma, and I had what was unconventional then in the ’50s. Which was, a father being home with the kids, and the wife working. This arrangement enabled Knox to develop his art, painting, drawing, sculpting, and intense study of art through books and weekly visits to the various museums in New York.We went everywhere with him. My mother Isabel, a Spanish beauty, who was also a Flamenco dancer, gladly contributed to Knox, as she saw the genius in him. Knox, by his own keen interest, has trained his eye to be able to perceive ...
• 03.28.09
  ESSAY BY PROFESSOR LEANDER S. HUGHES in praise of the Alpha Seer Uncategorized | (0)

  Guidance to Understanding the Alpha Seer by Leander S. Hughes There is a crisis in the modern world of visual art. Art has lost its taste; or rather, we have lost our ability or will to distinguish between tastes. A stack of Brillo boxes (Warhol, 1965) is displayed in the same institution as a Van Gogh and we are told that both works should be treated as equally great. Of course, we have the right to hold a different opinion, but not to speak it if we have any interest in maintaining our appearance as educated and cosmopolitan. Instead, we are encouraged to work out for ourselves ways in which a stack of cardboard boxes that ...

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