Speed of Life

The Bay Area has enjoyed a weekend of great weather, great art (Picasso and Brice Marden at SFMOMA) and great basketball- Baron Davis and co...

Mstislav Rostropovich gave an impromptu concert at Checkpoint Charlie after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989. photo- Reuters Listen t...

An image of the full sun in 3-D. This photo was captured by SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on March 20, 2007, and combines 4 d...

Mark Rothko Untitled (Seagram Mural), 1959 Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. Copyright © 1997 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Priz...

We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are V...

Jackie Robinson during his collegiate years in Los Angeles "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." ...

Eakins’ “Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand” (1874), sold to Alice Walton’s Arkansas museum. The painting is destined for the new Crysta...

"Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach." --Sol LeWitt, 1969 Sol LeWitt...

I am re-reading Lawrence Weschler's volume of essays: "Vermeer in Bosnia." Weschler's piece on the light of L.A. resonates...

Update: RB Kitaj Exits R.B. Kitaj at Hammer Museum RB Kitaj presented a lecture on his art at the Hammer Museum on Thursday, March 8, 2007 ...

Three esteemed Mexican film directors are up for Oscars at tonight's Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Gui...

Installation View: Rothko at MOCA The recent exhibition of Mark Rothko's work by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at their Pac...

Thomas Eakins, (1844-1916) The Cello Player, 1896 Formerly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Joseph E. Temple Fund, 18...

At the Sundance Film Festival “Grace Is Gone,” by first-time director James Strouse and featuring John Cusack, has won the the dramatic audi...

Senator Barack Obama speaks in remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr. -Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press Speaking today at the ...

This upcoming weekend Phil and I will be presenting the second in a series of exploratory workshops at the Esalen Institute. Gregg Chadwick ...

Ruth Bernhard "In the Box" gelatin silver print 1962 "My aim is to transform the complexities of the figure into harmonies of...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is making an effort to keep Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" in Philadelphia. Please note that everyo...

Barack Obama I have been reading Barack Obama's new book, "The Audacity of Hope" on this Thanksgiving. Obama's astute word...

Thomas Eakins "Gross Clinic" 96"x78" oil on canvas 1875 -image courtesy Thomas Jefferson University The Crystal Bridges ...

Gregg Chadwick "Ghost of New Orleans" 48"X36" oil on linen 2006 We were in my studio Saturday night mourning the loss of...

Gregg Chadwick "The Angel of History" 28.5" x 73" sumi and oil on screen 2006 "This is how one pictures the an...

Darren Waterston Interior (Green), 2001 The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (SJICA) has moved into its own building just down the b...