PUBLISHING UPDATE, 7/2/2010.  My science book is now available for purchase. Here is the link to order: authorhouse.com. This is the cheapest place to get the books, but they will soon be available at major outlets for a mark-up. I will soon have some signed hardbacks available for those who want them. The price will be retail plus the two shipping charges. I will post an update when I have them available, or you can email me with a pre-order now.
NEW, added 6/17/10, Prince Gimmick, A review of Chuck Close, and other commentary.
NEW, added 6/7/10, A Review of Tim Eitel and Pace Wildenstein Gallery, If you are looking for happy thoughts do not click this link. Try Tom Turtle instead.
NEW, added 5/22/10, Thoughts for the Day, on Ben and Jerry and asking girls to coffeeshops, etc.
NEW, added 5/13/10, Tom Turtle on the Red Carpet. Tom Turtle comments on the lifetime achievement award of the great Tom Hanks.
NEW, added 5/12/10, I have updated the Tess Book with better scans.
NEW, added 5/5/10, A client just sent me a great photo of an old work. Click on the image to go to details.
NEW, added 5/3/10, Channeling Thoreau and Twain by channeling George Carlin. Warning: Don't read this if you are looking for an easy laugh.
NEW, added 4/15/10, The Theater of the Absurd. I comment on the news of the day, including the N-word (again) and Sandra Bullock.
NEW, added 4/6/10, Click here to go to my first posted piano piece at YOUTUBE, Franz Liszt's Consolation no. 3.
NEW, added 4/6/10, Click here to go to my new 10-part studio tour on YOUTUBE.
NEW, added 4/1/10, The Top 70 Greatest Love Songs. Including Greensleeves!
NEW, added 3/19/10, Balls in a Basket. A review of the reviews of Skin Fruit, the current exhibition at the New Museum, New York.
NEW, added 3/10/10, The Pre-Picassan Brotherhood. An old article from about 10 years ago reprinted and illustrated.
NEW, added 3/8/10, Buddhism: the Stronger Poison. An analysis of "The Life of the Buddha".
NEW, added 3/6/10, Why does the Rainbow Curve Down? Another paper from my science site that I thought my art readers might like. It is not too terribly technical, and it has a lot of pretty pictures.
NEW, added 3/2/10, The Sexiest Women of the Screen. A top fifty list to answer Empire's list.
NEW, added 2/27/10, The Philosophy of Yoga. A critique from a lover rather than an adept.
NEW, added 2/26/10, The Voice Vote. On Parliamentary procedure and the Patriot Act.
NEW, added 2/19/10, All Apologies. No, this is not about Kurt Cobain.
NEW, added 2/18/10, Why is the Sky Blue? I thought some of my art readers might be interested in this paper from my science site, which shows that the current answer is wrong.
NEW, added 2/18/10, Physics is Corrupt. I also talk about art here, as usual.
NEW, added 12/6/09, The Venice Biennale 2009. A counter-critique of Art in America and "Art" in Venice.
NEW, added 10/12/09, Proverbs. Solomon's teachings take us into another critique of the avant garde, as well as of the ever-silent realists.
NEW, added 10/6/09, The AskMen 2009 List of Most Influential Men. A fictional poll topped by a fictional character.
THANKS!, Thanks to all my readers, I have posted more than a million hits in the past twelve months, and am now logging over 100,000 hits a month. For those readers interested in science, you can also link from here to my science papers at The General Science Journal, where I just topped 10 million hits.
NEW, added 9/12/09, The NEA should be Abolished.
NEW, added 8/31/09, The Possible Dangers of Sodium Laureth Sulfate, and the proven dangers of online propaganda.
NEW, added 8/31/09, In Praise of Mud. How to use browns and greys in your painting to create more depth and richness.
NEW, added 8/25/09, The Illogic of Atheism.
NEW, added 8/23/09, The Decline and Fall of Christopher Hitchens.
NEW, added 8/16/09, New Scans, New Images.

NEW, added 8/10/09, Tom Turtle Plays Beach Volleyball. The latest installment of the adventures of Tom Turtle.
NEW, added 8/10/09, 100 Best Films, an artist's list.
NEW, added 8/6/09, Dave Hickey, Provocateur, a new letter to the editor, mocking Dave Hickey and Dennis Hopper. Skip to bottom of the page.
NEW, added 8/6/09, Tom Turtle goes a'Golfing, the latest installment of Tom Turtle.
ARTICLE UPDATE, added 7/29/09, Futurism and Stuckism. I have petitioned Parliament to investigate the BBC, for propaganda in the arts section. If you are a UK citizen and would like to sign this petition, please contact me immediately.
NEW, added 7/18/09, The 100 Top Vocal Songs since 1950, yes, back on my list kick, but this time by request. Movies next.
NEW, added 7/15/09, The Business of Art, concerning propaganda from galleries to artists.
NEW, added 7/11/09, New details added,
NEW, added 6/30/09, New paintings added,
 
NEW, added 6/23/09, Jerry's Artarama has no customer service.
NEW, added 6/18/09, A Review of Bo Bartlett at Forum Gallery, including passing commentary on other artists at Forum and John Pence Gallery.
NEW, added 6/6/09, Poetry is not a Performance Art, a review of slam poetry.
NEW, added 6/3/09, Ragnar Kjartansson and "The End", commentary on today's NYTimes article.
NEW, added 5/17/09, Contra Dave Hickey, against the art critic.
NEW, added 5/17/09, More letters to the editor, Old and new letters added from my files, including two new ones about Dennis Hopper in Taos. Go to the bottom of the page for new postings.
NEW, added 5/17/09, New paintings added,  
NEW, added 5/7/09, Dennis Hopper: Double-Fake Artist, in which Hopper's exhibits at the Harwood in Taos are slammed.
NEW, added 5/4/09, The Futurists and the Stuckists, a BBC correspondent uses propaganda to tie the Stuckists to Futurism.
NEW, added 5/2/09, The Turner Prize, state-funded propaganda to subsidize the art market.
NEW, added 4/25/09, New paintings added, and scans replaced. Nearly the entire sold works page has been redone. Many additions to the portraits page too.
NEW, added 4/14/09, The 2008 ARC Salon. The second death of realism.
NEW, added 4/7/09, Top 50 TV Shows and Theme Songs. No, Seinfeld is not #1. Sorry Jerry, the theme song really hurt you.
NEW, added 3/28/09, Askmen.com 49 Most Influential Men of 2008. I'm pissed that the Cookie Monster didn't make it, and raise hell.
NEW, added 3/26/09, On Balls and James Joyce, a critique of Ulysses, the Modern Library list of novels, and modern fiction in general.
NEW, added 3/25/09, New paintings added, and scans replaced, including these
NEW, added 3/25/09, Sif & Trelawney, a twice-told faerie tale in three parts, illustrated.
NEW, added 3/14/09, The 75 Greatest Books Ever Written, OK, maybe not, but a better list than that of Esquire.
NEW, added 2/22/09, The Return of Tom Turtle, in which Tom helps you deal with unwanted phone calls.
NEW, added 2/21/09, Corrected images, I spent all day in photoshop, trying to correct old scans, especially on the sold works page.
NEW, added 2/20/09, New Poem, Asterië.
NEW, added 2/17/09, Tom Waits, casualty of cool.
NEW, added 2/15/09, On Elizabeth Gilbert, including a critique of the TED conferences.
NEW, added 2/11/09, New paintings added, and scans replaced, including these
NEW, added 2/2/09, A Few Real Secrets of Drawing, and other thoughts.
NEW, added 2/1/09, A Return to the Hockney-Falco Thesis. In which I attack both sides, including David Stork.
NEW, added 1/14/09, The Holeness of Jasper Johns. A counter-review of the current New York Times review.
NEW, added 1/13/09, Philip Pearlstein and the plastic nude. A counter-review of the current New York Times review.
NEW, added 11/12/08, New paintings added, and scans replaced, including these
NEW, added 10/22/08, A Prediction. Concerning the upcoming election.
NEW, added 10/12/08, What you should know about Barack Obama. His voting record and his advisors.
NEW, added 10/1/08, Some much improved scans on the Sold Works Page, including and
NEW, added 9/30/08, The Fall of the Gallery. Recent fun about town.
NEW, added 9/28/08, The Fundamental Theorem of Modernity, and why it is false. On equality of achievement.
NEW, added 6/16/08, The Rise of the Gallery.
NEW, added 5/8/08, SQUIB. Samples of my comic strip from 1984-1987. Also samples of HELIUM HORNRIM.
NEW, added 5/6/08, New Images, new details. More new detail photos of the Triptych, this time of the central painting.
NEW, added 4/17/08, New Images, new details. New detail photos of the Triptych, including new close-ups of the sculpture in front and of the poem.
NEW, added 4/1/08, New Images. Go to the available works page or to the hi-def scans page. Many old scans have been replaced.
NEW, added 2/24/08, The DIY Ballot. The easy solution to voting problems.
NEW, added 2/13/08, Currin Again. A counter-critique of the recent New Yorker article.
NEW, added 2/05/08, A Review of the 2007 ARC Salon.
NEW, added 11/22/07, New works. First six thumbs here are new.
NEW, added 11/11/07, A website edit. No more gray pages, small fonts. Take another look at those articles that put you off before. Report any ones I may have missed in my housecleaning.
NEW, added 11/7/07, A Defense of Ashley Olsen. and, to a lesser extent, Lance Armstrong.
NEW, added 10/10/07, Paris-la-Morte. Paris the Dead.
NEW, added 10/2/07, Graydon Parrish and the 911 Memorial.
NEW, added 9/13/07, Nietzsche contra Modern Art.  The Case of Wagner as a text for critiquing Modernity.
NEW, added 9/08/07, Of Beavers and other Beasties Where does intelligence now find sustenance?
NEW, added 8/23/07, Walter Pater against the 20th century "The School of Giorgione" destroys an entire century of art and art criticism.
NEW, added 8/2/07, Chance Abutmenting A counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl, the art critic at The New Yorker.
NEW, added 7/24/07, Ushas Asleep new poem added to site.
NEW, added 5/31/07, Contra Jerry Saltz a counter-critique of the critic for New York magazine.
NEW, added 4/19/07, A Review of Sargent/Sorolla in Paris.
NEW, added 1/24/07, Making and applying Damar Varnish.
NEW, added 1/21/07, The Absurdity of Modern Life and Art.
NEW, added 1/16/07, William Whitaker and ABS, a health and materials recommendation.
NEW, added 12/29/06, Redacted! commentary on the redacted op-ed at the New York Times.
NEW, added 12/11/06, Artist's Statement on the Triptych, another old statement I found and just added to the site.
NEW, added 12/09/06, For Sophia, concerning objectivism in art.
NEW, added 12/07/06, An Artist's Statement, this was used by Weinstein Gallery for my show in 2003. I am finding all sorts of good stuff in my files, now that I am being forced to to rebuild this site.
NEW, added 12/06/06, Censored, by Yahoo et. al.
NEW, added 12/05/06, A Letter to Tom Wolfe, just dug out of my files from 1998.
NEW, added 11/21/06, An Art Experiment, in color and chirality that you can try at home.
NEW, added 11/11/06, "Postwar" Art, in which WW2 is moved back to 1890.
NEW, added 11/05/06, Stein v. Krugman, in which I go very far afield.
NEW, added 10/29/06, A Cennini Flamewar, with Rob Howard.
NEW, added 10/17/06, The Wiki Mandarins, a critique of Wikipedia.
NEW, added 10/11/06, The Lastman in Comedy, on freedom of speech.
NEW, added 9/19/06, A Turtle he goes a Arting, the first in a series by that world reknowned literary icon and word finesser, Tom Turtle.
NEW, added 9/17/06, An Open Letter to the National Portrait Gallery, anyone who likes may sign the letter and join my protest.
NEW, added 9/11/06, The National Portrait Competition, a review of the 2006 Outwin Boochever Award.
NEW, added 8/26/06, A Note on Technique, this note has been at the top of my thumbs pages for a while, but for those who have missed it I add a more obvious link here.
NEW, added 8/22/06, Letter to the MacArthur Foundation, concerning contradictions in the website "overview" page.
NEW, added 8/22/06, Letter to the NEA, a letter from early 2005 to Dana Gioia, Chairman, and a response.
NEW, added 8/19/06, Bad Boy of the Latin Club, a silly interlude now linked from my bio page.
NEW, added 8/18/06, My Personal Photo Album is finally starting to come together.
NEW, added 8/03/06, Sexual Politics and our Children, more iconoclasm in yet another arena.
NEW, added 7/28/06, I put all the photos from the Tess Book through photoshop today and they look a lot better.
NEW, added 7/28/06, I am not a Monk, new poem added to site.
NEW, added 7/25/06, An Email from Saatchi Gallery, yes, you read that right.
NEW, added 7/24/06, More Sleight of Hand from the WSJ, a response to an article from The Wall Street Journal.
NEW, added 7/24/06, six new poems added to the site.
NEW, 6/20/06, New Hi-res Scans! I finally broke down and bought a digital camera, and the site is already beginning to transform. I am reshooting all the work I can get my hands on, so look for more replacements in the following weeks. Among the new scans are nine new works added to the site. Of course I don't have access to my sold works, so most of those rotten scans will have to stand.
NEW, added 5/31/06, A Review of Van Nielsen, a long review of Van and the rest of the world.
NEW, added 5/31/06, Many scans added or corrected this week, including these

NEW, added 5/5/06, Claudio Bravo at Marlborough Gallery, London., a review of the exhibition.
NEW, added 3/7/06, A Review of the Paul Oxborough Exhibition, London, a wide-ranging review of the realist market, using Oxborough's exhibition as a convenient lightning rod.
NEW, added 2/6/06, The Sad Beauty, a feature article on the artist from Taos Magazine, August 1993.
NEW, added 2/1/06, A Million Little Pieces of @#$%, commentary on truth in art, etc.
NEW, added 1/18/06, 2 new works to the available works thumbspage. Nude in Rocker, and Nude with Green Book.
THANKS!, Thanks to all you readers, I have had seven times more hits on the homepage in May than in January (now with about 15,000 page-hits a month, or 70,000 hits a month overall). Whether that is due more to the site re-design or to all the new Davidic fights I have picked in this period, we will never know. But it is interesting to note that I posted those numbers while losing my weblinks from ARC. Those who have thought I am harming myself by speaking out appear to be wrong. Some bridges are burned while others are built.

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