We also hear from Sextus Empiricus that Anaxarchus "likened existing things to stage-painting and took them to be similar to the things which strike us while asleep or insane" (M 7.88).
For all the boozy revelry swirling around the main stage, these paintings were fetching soberingly serious figures, with one bid having climbed over $1300 by the time I'd left at the end of the night.
For those who have not yet seen Wiley's work, you might want to spend Saturday, June 2nd catching up on the painter's career without paying a penny -- the Brooklyn Museum, which has a good group of Wiley's earliest portraits, and the Jewish Museum, with his recent "World Stage: Israel" paintings, will both be free on June 2nd, and Sean Kelly, despite its museum-quality shows, is always free.
Warren's fresh take on the practice of staging classical paintings belongs to the internet age.
In 2017, he stages his paintings within an environment that recalls not only the Factory but also the dancefloor.
Stage left: oil paintings in fake-gilt frames show women in Renaissance dress, standing by canals.
Later color would also provide the shape, but at this stage Miró's paintings were closer to drawing.
There were some large easels set up on the stage, and several paintings on view: "Telephone," I think, and "Dick Tracy and Sam Ketchum".
Black personalities were also evident on the stage and in paintings, as well as on the streets, where they worked as peddlers and prostitutes, chairmen and footpads.
With more than 200 paintings, stage designs, sheet-music covers, gallery catalogs, photographs, sculptures and other objects, it covers the years when modernism took root: in galleries, publishing houses and theaters, in advanced art from France and Italy, in the rich street life of newspapers, cafes and shop windows.
