Speed of Life

"There is indeed a downtown POV here in NY and elsewhere that likes to guard its favors. Downtown tastemakers will quietly rave about s...

Tonight's Oscars shed light on many fine performances. I was especially taken with Jamie Foxx's speech during the acceptance of hi...

Vietnam Women's Memorial In honor of the 11,500 women who served with the US forces in Vietnam. Most as nurses or connected to med...

by Gregg Chadwick The latest California actor turned governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has picked a battle that he can not win. Ar...

by Gregg Chadwick Hunter S. Thompson's recent self-inflicted death brought to mind Elliott Smith's tragic suicide as well as Kurt ...

by Gregg Chadwick I just got back from a weekend at Joshua Tree with a group of writers and actors. We talked deeeply about the process of...

"Intolerance is the father of illusion and evil deeds.Tolerance is not its opposite; tolerance is neutral. The opposite of intolerance ...

Bob Marley would have turned sixty today. Marley's life was brief but his legacy has been long and widespread. His music brought the hop...

Chester Arnold, the visionary Bay Area painter who exhibits at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, has inspired his students at th...

Update: Chapel to be torn down today- Thursday, February 3rd Throughout the day yesterday, people came to see, photograph and touch the to...

by Gregg Chadwick Raising the Red Flag Over the Reichstag, Berlin May 2, 1945 photo by Yevgeny Khaldei Today near the site of th...

White Noise 60"x60" oil on linen 2002 Don DeLillo's first film, "Game 6", is being screened at Sundance to...

Gregg Chadwick ciudad de la memoria 38"x38" oil on linen 2005 Private Collection, Beverly Hills At times a work of a...

-gregg chadwick, buddha's hand 2004 We spoke of the tsunami in an L.A. pub last night. Over the sound system the piano intro to "...

By the Sea Stretching into the distance the sea swallows a hundred rivers for thousands of miles the spray joins the waves to the s...

A foreign boy is carried by a Thai rescue worker after being evacuated from a nearby island resort off Krabi, southern Thailand. (Rosla...

gregg i should write an official letter of thanks for your blog because (of) the good news! ... I can't thank you enough for your eff...

"Everyone has their Vietnam. Everyone has their war. May we embark together on a pilgrimage of ending these wars and truly living peace...

"Our task now is to mend our broken world... And what our world needs now is not belief, not certainty, but compassionate action and pr...

I wish to provide you with the following official statement regarding the upcoming exhibition by Emily Jacir:       "Wichita State ...

emily jacir from "where we come from" At times the subtext of events and images from Palestine to San Francisco to Berlin hel...

----- Forwarded message from emily jacir ----- Dear all, I was slated to have a one person show at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, K...

"where we come from" at debs & co. ulrich museum newsgrist adbusters contemporary the thing: look for arts intoleren...

by Gregg Chadwick alan caudillo photo by Gregg Chadwick the witty, important film "a day without a mexican" is now availabl...

vincent van gogh postman 21"x15" oil on canvas 1889 the barnes collection Montgomery County Judge Stanley Ott has issued a r...

the world is a lesser place w/o you...

Henry David Thoreau was inspired to write “Civil Disobedience” after a night in a Concord, Massachusetts jail for refusing to pay a tax in s...

gregg chadwick a theater of time 72"x56" oil on linen 2004 in park city, utah for the opening weekend of the julie nester gal...

"Tucked inside Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending is a highly classified and expensive spy program that drew e...

phil cousineau's new collection of poems: "the blue museum" is out. thought i would share his cinematic poem on the burning ...

Gregg Chadwick new breeze, new hour 30" x 22" monotype 2004 two exhibitions open this friday with work by gregg chadwi...

periodically i will pick an exhibition or an opening to highlight. if you are in new york this thursday or will be traveling there shortly ...

the transparent life 30"x22" monotype 2004 Moment Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean t...

i've been reading the poetry of adam zagajewski derek walcott in the new republic : "these poems enter and possess you quietly. ...

(Peace) 320˚ NW From where the red-winged blackbirds sing on the cattails of the Schel-Cheb marsh and the blue camas flowers bloo...

Kent Chadwick's poem "(Peace) 320˚ NW" is the first in a series of responses to my question, "How do you paint, write, s...

  Gregg Chadwick Either/Or 36"x29" oil on linen 2004 Private Collection, San Francisco I find I need to look deeply into this pain...

steven, if my ten year old son did not cringe at the expression "shut-up" i might have titled my response to your national revi...

this morning's harbor , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . the julie nester gallery in park city, utah will have its grand...

"New York has finally become Paris -- a bountiful place to visit to see what great art used to be. The stunning new MoMA is its magnifi...

jt kirkland is running an evocative site at thinking about art. he graciously allowed me to participate in an ongoing project in which artis...

City of Desires , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . listening to pearl jam resound in a san francisco cafe. a warm fall d...

黎明夢想(a dream of dawn) 80"x76" oil on linen 2004 i have been reading classical chinese poetry in translation while working...

been in the studio all day- feels good to work large and get the whole body into it the light that fills this space in the late afte...

Excerpts from letters to his parents from Pfc. Moisés A. Langhorst of the Marines. Private Langhorst, 19, of Moose Lake, Minn., was killed i...

i grabbed this moment of a monk taking a break for contemplation last year and found the image while researching new ideas. it seemed so...

-rotc training before deployment, spring 04: photo by gregg chadwick as the battle rages again in fallujah it prompts us to look at the...

"In this day and age of selling out to the Bushes and being corporate and acting like the industrial, plastic American lifestyle is the...

Arlington 48” x 36” oil on linen 2004 From the funeral of Chanawongse Kemaphoom 22, of Waterford, Connecticut. Killed in ...