Speed of Life

Matthew Barney sweeps up at SFMOMA There is an amusing article in today's San Francisco Chronicle about the installation of Matthew Barn...

Max Beckmann "Film Studio" 25 5/8 x 37 5/8 in. (65.1 x 95.6 cm) oil on canvas 1933 Saint Louis Art Museum The Los Angeles Film Fes...

Nagasawa Rosetsu "Elephant and Children" ink on paper c. 1794 Asian Art Museum, San Francisco I recently wrote on the extraordinar...

"Ed Ruscha Monument" Kent Twitchell 1978-1987 Acrylic "(The Ed Ruscha mural) has always been such a popular piece in the art ...

Katharine Close, an eighth-grader at the H.W. Mountz School in Spring Lake, New Jersey, becomes the first girl since 1999 to win the nationa...

Henri Matisse "La violiniste a la fenêtre" (The Violinist at the Window) charcoal on paper 1924 photo courtesy of the Palace of ...

Icon with Saint Theodosia. (detail) Byzantine (Constantinople), first half of the 13th century. The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, ...

RB Morris at the Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco photo by Gregg Chadwick Lucinda Williams has called him the "greatest unknown songwrit...

Gregg Chadwick "The Crossing" 72"x48" oil on linen 2004 Thinking About Art has my "Artists Interview Artists" ...

Gerhard Richter "Breath" (detail) oil on canvas 1989 Milwaukee Art Museum Tyler Green's recent piece on the correspondence be...

Robert Heinecken Photo work from a guerilla special edition Christopher Knight reports in todays Los Angeles Times that the artist Robert He...

Gregg Chadwick October Off Ocean Park 72"x72" oil on linen 2006 My painting, "October Off Ocean Park" was painted in a s...

Photo by: KB Projects Konstantin Bojanov, an art fabricator, at work on Richard Jackson's "The Pink Empire" . "As art wi...

Lee Sevilla in her car with Sandy Photo by Richard Hartog In today's Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez describes the predicament of Lee Sev...

Gregg Chadwick 关于金山 (On Gold Mountain) 68"x68" oil on linen 2006 For the immigrant Chinese community, San Francisco was known as G...

As John Cage said, “Our lives are changing to the point where people may have their own lives rather than lives that society has given them ...

Cover Image: Gregg Chadwick "Ossi di Sepia" monotype Bruce Boone's "My Walk With Bob" has been described by Dennis ...

I have been thinking about Goya and Spanish painting while in the studio recently. Gregg Chadwick "Songs Of Almodóvar" 48"x36...

Gustav Klimt "Apple Tree I" 42 7/8" x 43 1/4" oil on canvas 1911 or 1912 Estate of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer Quite a week i...

"A Walk with Ganesh" Gregg Chadwick, 72" x 84" oil on linen 2005 My brother, Kent Chadwick , is a Seattle writer and re...

" If the Princes of the world had to fight hand to hand, goodbye to war. But while there is someone in the world who can sacrifice thou...

Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 138 x 138 cm oil and gold on canvas 1907 Altmann Collection, Los Angeles A legal arbitration p...

Bamiyan Buddhas March 12, 2001 Destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas On March 12, 2001 the Buddhas in Bamiyan were destroyed in Afghanistan. ...