Category: art
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Alice Kahn Fall 1984 interview annotations
These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other good nuggets in here. Man, even in the depths of his Rock Bottom period, he sounds engaged and articulate. What a mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Fall 1984 interview by Alice Kahn. Date…
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Free Caravaggio
There are a bunch of Caravaggios in Rome, but the stunning thing is that four of them can be seen for free. I am certainly no art critic, but I don’t let that stop me, strolling from north to south. On the Piazza del Popolo is Santa Maria del Popolo, which is just bursting at…
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Race Record Dream
Rolling Stone has just posted a little gallery of Garcia’s art. Given finity, I will only scratch the surface of the paintings and drawings. But, since race is one of the threads I am trying to weave through my (amateur!) musicological excursions, and it crossed my screen, I thought I’d reproduce it here. This is…