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I COULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF ART HISTORY TOMORROW – YOU NEVER KNOW.

by Alan Todd | Dec 22, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  Perhaps it is a moot question or at least one without an answer, but what does it take to change the course of art history. Historians tell us that it took an assassination of random royalty in Sarajevo to trigger WW1 and an unexpected invasion of Poland to...

WHAT’S IN A NAME? CALL ME ANYTHING BUT DON’T LABEL ME.

by Alan Todd | Nov 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting

  In reading about the American painter Agnes Martin, I came across one of the great axioms of abstraction. Never talk about where your idea came from and if necessary, invent a past that may or may not have existed. Certainly, never admit to health problems,...

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