Tag Archives: John Koch

bohemia on central park west

Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York  blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading

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colonizing salvation

We don’t want salvation, we want the messiah! Or do you? If given a million dollars or the messiah arriving? Well, maybe the million, and the messiah a little later. Clearly, the the poor sufferers in the Death Camps of … Continue reading

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visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”

The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading

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