Great interview (in English!) of Gerhard Richter in his studio with Nicholas Serota:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/oct/13/gerhard-richter-tate-modern-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

"The Sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks."

-Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)

Visit to "A matter of Abstraction" & "On Abstraction" @ MAC MTL.

(Inordinate # of monkeys milling about, Wednesday night is free admission after all)

Upright Motive No 5, 1955 -1956, bronze 4/7, by Henry Moore had a red Gerbera w/ yellow stigma tucked into one of the three holes on the vertical statue, a stunning effect in the sculpture garden at sunset, no less.  Total but temporary completion, now & then, Life & Art., Bronze & petal fused momentarily, just for me.

"Pur Laine",2012 (for Jan Wong) came into my mind while I strolled around.
White sheep (101 of them?) in a snowstorm, oil on canvas, big.
 Maybe mirrored snowflakes.

John Fox: Abstractions, @ Battat Contemporary, MTL:

"Scamel", 1981, acrylic & collage on canvas, 87" x 65".
"Medlar", 1981, acrylic & collage on canvas, 79" x 57".

Visit to Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto:

Stunning paintings by John Brown

"Stupid 1", 116 " x 96', 2011, oil on panel, ($70 000.)

"Waiting", 96" x 108", 2011/12, oil on panel, ($35 000)

"Speaking", 84" x 72", 2011, oil on panel, ($35 000)

@ Christopher Cutts Gallery:  Michael Amar, each painting had a very strong & distinct energy field.

"The thicker you paint, the more it flows."

-John Singer Sargent
(1856 - 1925)

Gustave Courbet "The brook of the black well", 1855, oil on canvas:

George Rouault, "Christ & Pilate", n.d., oil on paper mounted on canvas.

Milton Avery "Trees against the sea", 1959, oil on canvas:

Discussion of the Cy Twombly & Nicolas Poussin show (July 2011) between Sir Nicolas Serota & Nicolas Cullinan at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Rukq7Px6w

 "You spend your time ranking the names of the greatest.  Beware of that.  Be modest, and stop looking for a rule."                                                                                                                                          

 -Emile Nolde

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "


"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."


"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods.  We have ours, they have theirs.  That's whats known as infinity."

-Jean Cocteau