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cut-paper collage by Sophy Naess [installation view] [detail] collaged drawing by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy [installation view] collaged drawing, a collaboration of Sophy Naess and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy [installation view] Thrust Projects is currently mounting an exhibition of work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy...

untitled (GOYA) 2007 The color and shapes outside the window above the Bowery almost rivaled those inside the gallery, at Thrust Projects last Friday....

Dalí would certainly have been pleased, had he been with us on the sidewalk outside the Chelsea Hotel this afternoon....

Eliezar Sonnenschein Landscape and jerusalem 2007 acrylic on wood 96" x 48" Three years ago I did a post which included an image of a painting by Eliezar Sonnenschein, who shows with Tel Aviv's Sommer Gallery. Yesterday I came...

It's a very simple thing, but I think our most exciting gustatory discovery while in Spain was a traditional (Galician) pepper dish, Pimientos de Padrón, and I'm willing to go to great lengths to find the right pepper in...

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I fell in love with many of the older doors (and their portals) in Spain, both for their beauty and for the physical scars which mark their survival. In some of the more ancient examples the wood had been...

William Powhida The Rules 2007 graphite and gouache on panel 24" x 18" [large detail of installation] William Powhida Pricing Guide 2007 graphite and gouache on panel 14" x 11" [large detail of installation] We missed all the fun...

untitled (floats) 2007 Getaria is an extraordinarily beautiful small Basque town on the Bay of Biscay where we enjoyed a wonderful leisurely lunch on a stone terrace high above the harbor, at a restaurant bearing the improbable name, May...

Where is the outrage over Guantanamo, seven months after the election? Why hasn't our political "detainment" camp in Cuba, our festering national disgrace, been shut down yet? And while I'm on the subject, where is my right to habeas...

children playing in a fronton in the fishing town of Getaria, on the Basque coast I've just put dozens of images on Flickr, specifically of people we encountered during our two weeks in Spain. Most of them are complete...

like a bad penny I cannot hide it any longer: We arrived back from Spain Wednesday afternoon. Our luggage, having decided to extend the holiday for another day, arrived at our door 24 hours later, sadder but a little...

untitled (dog nap) 2007 I found this shaggy little guy asleep in the middle of Placa Barceloneta Tuesday afternoon....

I've always wanted to inhabit this glorious utopian folly, so it was way up near the top of my list during our visit to Barcelona. In the end, since the platform occupied by the 1985 recreation of Mies van...

untitled (skateboarder) 2007 untitled (laundry) 2007 These two shots were taken the same day, the first in El Raval, a neighborhood of Barcelona's Ciutat Vella, near the historic center of the city, the second in Barceloneta, a planned 18th-century...

untitled (gilt holes) 2007 This is a large detail of the arcaded ceiling of the nave of Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The backlit holes, haloed with gilt rays perhaps 60 meters above the floor, seem to suggest...

nice beltline It took us at least 45 minutes to turn over the keys to our rental car here in Barcelona yesterday, but there was also this pleasant distraction at the counter immediately ahead of us. He and his...

untitled (flames) 2007 Biggest votive candles ever! These thick tapers (measuring approximately one inch in diameter) were burning inside the enormous Renaisance/Baroque interior of Zaragosta's Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar when we visited the church on Saturday....

untitled (walking sticks) 2007 Spaniards are almost always beautiful, but the older men and women have a kind of grace not found in youth, even the youth of Iberia. Not incidentally, they also dress much better than most of...

untitled (roots) 2007 We're having some difficulty getting a decent internet connection, so I haven't been able to upload any of images I would like to have shown here in the last few days. This one was captured yesterday...

Today was a slow day at the El Escorial. Indeed, it was a day the palace/monastery was closed, but the huge terrace was pulsing with life during a lunch break for the students at the Real Colegio Alfonso XII....

Artemio Made in china 2006 self-adhesive vinyl 80cm x 150cm [installation view with Barry and gallery guest in foreground] Yesterday Barry and I went to an opening in Lavapiés with Teresa Moro, a show by a group of Mexican...

Barry and I went to Atocha early this afternoon, to see what the station looked like, but also to see the memorial to the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people and injured some 1800. Especially...

[detail] We really happy to spend some time with Teresa Moro today, especially since we weren't originally sure we would even find her while we were here. We hadn't seen the artist since her solo show at Foxy Production...

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untitled (jamon) 2007 untitled (tabac) 2007 It was obviously the azul hour. We were in Lavapiés tonight, walking down Calle Torrecilla del Leal toward Plaza Anton Martin, when we passed these two wonderful bars. I took these shots in...

untitled (monster magazine) 2007 It didn't look like they were there to see Felipe III's grand Plaza....

untitled (blue wall) 2007 Actually, it's not easy finding some bright color on Madrid buildings. This small old house near the Plaza de la Paja is a little eccentric, but it also needs a little more care than it's...

untitled (cabbage) 2007 Restaurante El SoPortal displays its wares in the Plaza Major....

from the entrance at Foxy, a detail of "SUPEROVERPASS" collages grouped in the rear of the gallery at Foxy a detail of the enormous "Recondite" at Metro Pictures more of "Recondite", with collages on the wall in the background...

Francisco de Zurbarán Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose 1633 We're flying to Spain tomorrow for two weeks: Madrid, a motor trip north, ending in Barcelona, from which we fly back on the 16th. I was in...

Don Bachardy Gore Vidal 1963 pencil and ink wash "From George Washington to George Bush makes a monkey out of Darwin. [pause] I'm now a creationist." And so, punctuating himself with a mischievous smile and a composed chuckle, did...

Barry has all the words, and he links to all the important information on his post: Williamsburg's NUTUREart is having a benefit party, and they're throwing it in Manhattan. I suppose the location may have been chosen partly for...