Jamie Malanowski

Art

FANTASTIC FRED TOMASELLI

I came upon a portfolio of collages by Fred Tomaselli in the December issue of Harper’s yesterday, and man, they blew me away! He has a whole series of these headline-based paintings, and I think they are just fab. He is my new favorite artist.

DAVID LEVINE, 1926-2009

David Levine, the peerless caricaturist, died yesterday at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Here’s Bruce Weber, writing in the Times: David Levine, whose macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly half a century, died …

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DIA BEACON

Ginny and I spent Sunday in Beacon at the Dia art gallery, looking at the gigantic installations of conceptual modern art. Neither of us much liked or understood what was going on with the piles of sand or stacks of carpets or big holes in the floor, although both of us, and Ginny especially, liked …

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KILLING TIME

Caught on a rain-drenched Sunday with hours to kill between presentations at the Times, I visited the Met. I didn’t mean to hit the Arms and Armor gallery, but suddenly there I was. I looked around in memory of my friend Bob Carroll. I like to think that some of his work is still on …

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