Mud on Cloth on Clubhouse

Description

Artist-driven, high-level discussion about art, with an emphasis on shared humanity. Painting-centered but not painting-exclusive. Big-tent modernism. All approaches welcome.

"Every time I lecture, there is always some Gatesian nerd out there in the audience who sticks up his hand and says, 'Well, since we can perfectly reproduce an image on a high-fidelity television screen, why do you need to go and see the original?' And the answer is because paintings are things in the physical world, made out of colored mud smeared on a piece of cloth or a piece of board, with a stick with hairs on the end. They have a particular address to your body, and none of this comes across in the computer image." - Robert Hughes