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I asked Darsi Alexander for an exhibition at Walker and she's going to do it. Which is very happy outcome and I think people will get an eyeful and it maybe can set things straight about my art . Some art does have a bite, the world is still a very inhospitable place for art too close to truth.… Read More

 The thing I imagine about a detective story is writing it spontaeously so the writer doesn't know where s/he is going. This is oddly how I make art sort of out of thin air, from nothing to something. But the analogy to detective yarns goes further I like my art to be puzzling and intriguing as… Read More

 Lately I think about life as a tour and as you age you start your farewell tour before you vanish forever.

 I've lost alot of friends along the way, I had a psychiatrist Dr. Coldmorning ( he saw me for free and gave me my lithium for free )anyway he told me how Bi-Polar people have… Read More

 Don Judd is the new Henry Moore. Everyone seems to think highly of the late Don Judd's sculpture. Like Henry Moore the general opinion rates Judd as best of his age, though some folks like myself feel his sculpture functions more like formalist abstract geometric painting than like a sculpture… Read More

 Of course that was mid 1970's the talking with Dr Hopps. Correspondence between us is in Smithsonian Files  from National Gallery - a slim manila posterity with me and the man who loved Marcel Duchamp's art so much - Hopps did the first American one person show of Duchamp at Pasadena Museum of… Read More