Speed of Life

Donald Sultan Spring 1999 "Robert Creeley is an artist’s poet....I think of him as one of the most  thoughtful poets ever to explor...

Gregg Chadwick Speed of Life Study 33"x20" monotype 2005 From the San Francisco Art Institute Art Auction The annual San Fra...

A wonderful discussion is continuing on the place of arts writing and elitism in contemporary art. From Mark Vallen's art for a change &...

Gerard Bourgeois Après le Bain 41" x 54" oil on canvas 2005 Currently on view at the Sarah Bain Gallery in Brea, California i...

“The Bias of Costume Design” a lecture by Oscar & Tony Nominated, Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer JULIE WEISS Sunday, April 3rd,...

Update: RB Kitaj Exits R.B. Kitaj Los Angeles no. 20 1990-2003 Collection of the National Gallery of Australia "Don't liste...

photo courtesy Heritage Watch "There is not a single site that is not affected," said Helen Jessup, the founder of Friends of K...

Richard Diebenkorn "Ocean Park No. 54" 100" x 81" oil on canvas 1972 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "The...

Leonardo da Vinci Woman's Head Almost in Profile  "Since the time of Pliny the Elder unfinished works were cherished because th...

"Contemptuous of the Insults" Goya 1816-1820 From: "A Revolutionary Age: Drawing in Europe, 1770–1820" organized by t...

"The list of foreign writers, artists and intellectuals who, at one time or another, have been denied entry to the United States on i...

Bouquet photo by Gregg Chadwick From Judge Richard Kramer's decision: "The state's protracted denial of equal protect...

photo by Gregg Chadwick "In ads, displays, altars, graphic design, fashion, magazines, signage, architecture, television, movies, we...

gregg chadwick temple of the mind (for montien boonma) 60"x28" oil on linen 2005 Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master...

An international art incident seems to be brewing this week complete with gold, royalty, theft, smuggling and muck-raking journalism. A go...

Gregg Chadwick Of Sleep and Skies 33"x20" monotype 1999 To be auctioned on Saturday, March 5th at the Monterey Museu...

Jared Diamond's new book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" will prove to be as influential for this gener...

The exhibition "To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen" organized by Chester Arnold at the College of Marin has now traveled to Syra...

Currently at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is the exhibition- THE KINGDOM OF SIAM: THE ART OF CENTRAL THAILAND, 1350-1800 The ex...

"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...