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This blog hasnt been active in ages yet it keeps getting new followers. I will ATTEMPT to start it up again- in the meantime you can also fo...

Mark Ryden is opening his new show at Paul Kasmin Gallery in NY next week and I'll be there schmoozing it up and taking pics for Hi Fruc...

Here are more examples of artists inspired by the same image in their works. This one is the "Lamb of God" image. I hate this imag...

Occasionally, I'll see paintings that just make me exclaim "Jesus!" out loud when I first see them...I mean that in a good way...

Last year I gave a lecture in Reno and met Jane Kenoyer , a young artist who subsequently came and interned for me at Roq La Rue for several...

I don't think it can really be categorized as rogue taxidermy , but I sure love Jessica Joslin's steam-goth (sorry, I had to) sculp...

Just a little update about painter Jean Pierre Roy- he is exhibiting in a group show in New York- his gorgeously and ambiguously apocalypti...

Speaking of Ryden- he's just posted a time lapse of the creation of his painting, "Incarnation". Dig it.

Well, Hi There! I haven't posted for a zillion years, maybe I'll get back into it. I've just had other things going on but I do ...

Kate McGwire "Sluice" Just came across Kate McGwire's darkly beautiful and powerful work today...this piece struck me as just...

Will Cotton is another one of those painters that I've seen for awhile and then something in my brain just clicks and I REALLY see it a...

I seriously covet the work of Ann Carrington . She makes works using general everyday detritus, safety pins, pearl buttons, coconut shells,...

Here is an image from Lori Earley's upcoming show at Opera Gallery in London. Love. More info later....

Here's is a nice and mildly humorous glossary of terms trotted out by arty know it alls:

The other day Kenny and I were walking through a forested part of a nearby park when we heard an unusual but distinctive chorus of abrupt te...

As sort of an amuse-bouche for your eyes, check out Matthew Kirscht's paintings inspired by vintage Halloween imagery. Some of these ar...

This is neat. From I Heart Chaos : "In 1946, surrealist Salvador Dali formed an unlikely friendship with Walt Disney and they spent a s...

The new Hi Fructose is coming out soon, with loads of great new stuff, and including two big articles (I just about killed myself over) with...

I am really liking the work of Charlie Immer - more so now that I saw one in person recently at a friends house and could see the lovely ren...

(The one on the top is telling the one on the bottom he's adopted.) I have a fascination with tigers in art for some reason. Some of my ...

Ok seriously go over and check out this Titus Kaphar site. It's ok, I'll wait. Isn't it great? I'm a little slow to get on ...

Chris Berens has a show up in Amsterdam called "The White Ones". On my way to Kenya last month we had a layover in Amsterdam so we...

Well, HI! Long time no see. Sorry about that. I'm going to TRY to keep up the old blog, but the break was well needed. Anyway- here is a...

James Jean "Excavate" It is so exciting to see a new painting that cause that weird visceral thrill- like the one I had looking a...

"I don't feel like talking to you right now, I'm an artist." Thanks Richard!!!

The title above is my favorite Love and Rockets song- in which the singer ranks on a music critic. In the art movement I'm a part of, th...

If you are an artist or gallerist (or want to be one) this is a great article about the art world. Probably one of the best I've read. ...

The new Hi Fructose is out next month and features an article about Mark Ryden that yours truly here wrote. I have to say it was one of the ...

I've been meaning to post more scary paintings after my last Creepy Peepers post, here are just a few I thought of...as I said in the o...