by Shane McAdams | Aug 28, 2012 | Blog
Last week I wrote at length about image overload vis-à -vis a portrait of Dave Winfield I drew when I was a teenager. The point wasn’t merely to note that the information age has altered how artists parse the world, though it has, but to get at this notion about how...
by Shane McAdams | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog
In the fall of 1985, when I read that Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield was going to sign autographs at a Long Island Hilton, I decided I would execute the most exactingly perfect Ticonderoga No 2-on-paper portrait of him that had ever been produced. I had the paper...
by Shane McAdams | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
If you’ve been reading my “Cultural Divide†contributions over the past several months, you’ve gathered that I go to great lengths to try to deliver evenhanded criticism. So much so that a few have accused me of being an apologist for everything from...
by Shane McAdams | Jul 9, 2012 | Blog
I was Up North for the 4th of July weekend. When I say ‘Up North’ people in New York look at me quizzically. “Like, Montreal north…or like Catskills north?†“Neither, I was Up North, not, up north.†In Wisconsin ‘Up North’ is a proper compound noun...
by Shane McAdams | Jun 25, 2012 | Blog
I spent last Saturday providing unwanted color commentary to my wife as she shopped for gifts at the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn. For those who don’t know, the RCF is a craft-based flea market, whose proprietors and patrons share an affinity for...
