Cees Nooteboom "Rituals" and John Baldessari "Landscape"

  An uncanny association surfaced between these two works...
In February of 2004, I was about to fly home from Seattle. I had finished reading "Rituals", the one book I had brought with me, but when nothing in the airport newsstand looked remotely appealing, I realized that I had an internal command to re-read that book.  ~ More

Life Lessons: What One Psychoanalyst Learned From Contemporary Art

  Presented at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, February 1, 1998; International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education, San Francisco, California, November 6, 1999; Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis, Seattle, Washington, January 25, 2002. Previously presented under the title What I Learned About Psychoanalysis From Contemporary Art at the Winter Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Boston, Massachusetts, December 7-10, 1995 (a 30 minute version which omitted most of Ruppersberg section and did not include material on trauma and loss); at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, February 10, 1997; and under this title to the Santa Monica Museum of Art Friday Evening Salon at Track 16 Gallery/Bergamot Station, July 18, 1997.  ~ More

333 - the Spence Collection's original home

  The Spences lived in South Pasadena, California for more than two decades. When they moved to 333 Grand Avenue in South Pas, it looked like the first image (an oil by T.E.Spence); after a remodel by Bart Prince the front looked like the second (photo S.T.Spence): we had asked him not to make it "too conspicuous" from the front! It was extraordinary, wonderful, but also took over our lives - be careful what you wish for...  ~ More

Torpids: 1959-2005

That was the way to have a reunion!

Optical Illusions

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