~ ~ Thomas Hudson studio journal ~ ~
At the Whitney Biennal last spring, protestors made headlines when they demanded that the museum destroy an artwork they found offensive. The protesters didn't want the painting removed from the Biennial, they wanted it destroyed. The painting…
I worked on The Picnic and nothing else for the past few days. The Picnic has a painting surface that is difficult. This doesn't happen often anymore but it's annoying when it does happen. It…
I have always liked Goya. During my printmaking period, Goya's prints were constantly before my mind. The highlight of my visit to New York's Metropolitan last year was a Goya painting. This fall I hoped to attend London's National Gallery's exhibit, Goya: The Portraits.…
I had to laugh when I read this article in the Independent. The story is about the group calling themselves Renoir Sucks protesting in front of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Renoir Sucks' main tenant is, well, that…
My wife and I spent several hours in the Art Institute on Friday. We were in Chicago for an AFHU event at the Ritz-Carlton. It was our first visit to the museum and we didn't…
Michael J. Lewis' long piece in Commentary titled, How Art Became Irrelevant, is a tour de force of cultural analysis. In his well-written and long article (did I mention it is long?), Lewis' breadth of…
I read this laugh-out-loud piece in the NY Times. The blog post by Jeffrey Kindley is directed toward the college-age population of delicate hothouse plants who require trigger warnings on art and other cultural artifacts. Columbia…
The new Whitney. The Whitney Museum recently opened its new digs in Chelsea. My first (tiny) apartment in New York was in Chelsea (20th & 8th), of course, that was before Chelsea became an art…
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