Dear Friends,

cannot, nope, cannot resist pointing out that in today’s NYT, C1 and C8 by Jason Farago, certainly a fine writer about art, is a big and important for our community piece on Amy Sillman: Twice Removed, about her “career” (how I dislike that word, what is our “career” — is it our job or what we choose to devote ourselves to?) at the Gladstone Gallery, run by someone who got his Ph.D. with us about the “facticity of paint” , about her saying that her show wanted to enact “push and pull” (sound like Hans Hoffmann to you?) and wanted “the scale of the show to enhance bigness and littleness because of the way that certain things loom.” Sort of back to or on to Maximal and Minimal? And her essays are gathered in a book called Faux Pas, which I have to get and read, especially the one about AbEx, given my unadulterated attachment to Robert Motherwell. And it has flowers “both funerary and joyous” so I am hoping I can visit the gallery on my screen! the color photos look super,

and see you on Wed. 14 (full disclosure: since Chris teaches on Tuesday, this last or next to last seance, as it were, is on a Wednesday, Monday being a holiday for indigenous people)

m.a.

Mary Ann Caws

Dear Friends,

cannot, nope, cannot resist pointing out that in today’s NYT, C1 and C8 by Jason Farago, certainly a fine writer about art, is a big and important for our community piece on Amy Sillman: Twice Removed, about her “career” (how I dislike that word, what is our “career” — is it our job or what we choose to devote ourselves to?) at the Gladstone Gallery, run by someone who got his Ph.D. with us about the “facticity of paint” , about her saying that her show wanted to enact “push and pull” (sound like Hans Hoffmann to you?) and wanted “the scale of the show to enhance bigness and littleness because of the way that certain things loom.” Sort of back to or on to Maximal and Minimal? And her essays are gathered in a book called Faux Pas, which I have to get and read, especially the one about AbEx, given my unadulterated attachment to Robert Motherwell. And it has flowers “both funerary and joyous” so I am hoping I can visit the gallery on my screen! the color photos look super,

and see you on Wed. 14 (full disclosure: since Chris teaches on Tuesday, this last or next to last seance, as it were, is on a Wednesday, Monday being a holiday for indigenous people)

m.a.

Mary Ann Caws

[Madeleine Barnes]

Hi friends! Are we meeting at 4 today?

Thank you,

Maddie

[Mary Ann Caws (she/her)]

?yes dear maddie, some of us, like me, will be here today at 4, hoping to figure things out!

warmly, m.a.

Mary Ann Caws

[Patricia Brody]

Dear Lovely Poets Together
We are leaving Rhode Island for good tomorrow and I was
ver tutzed. Is that the right word?
Packing up after 5 months
a final swim in the freeze.
And good bye to this house where we have rented
and been very happy — forever
It was sold out from under us, in the Real Estate
frenzy now frothing in every corner and crevice North of Gotham.

Pronounced Fair -tewtzt. Well, like the umlaut over Gluck.
Which Ms Louise added , though, why ….got me…
unless it were the rhyme?

Alors, one more Wednesday, I hope and would love to see/ hear and commune
with you all again.

With admiration,
Patricia B