Franklin Einspruch

Jan 8, 2025 | dissidentmuse.substack.com | Franklin Einspruch

In 2005, Dushko Petrovich wrote this about Part IV of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1:Painting has been both dead and back for a little while now, and Greater New York is no exception. Painting hangs out with harsh videos, miniature amusement park rides, and big photos of failed politicians. When the artists resort to painting, they seem in particular to need its elevated discourse, its easy combinations of recognized languages, or, above all, its inherent stillness.

Nov 29, 2024 | dissidentmuse.substack.com | Franklin Einspruch

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Nov 14, 2024 | dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch |Heather Shayne Blakeslee

, I don’t know if I belong to a political party anymore. So I’m throwing a party instead. “We don’t care who you voted for, just bring a dish to the potluck.”Richard Whittaker, City Arts Funding Skipped Established Arts Organizations. Will They Survive? “Arts groups, most of whom could not afford professional grant writers, were fighting with an unclear rubric and no guidance on the scoring matrix, especially when it came to diversity.

Nov 10, 2024 | dissidentmuse.substack.com | Franklin Einspruch

I skipped “The World of Perception” to read Niall Williams “This Is Happiness”. Having just finished “Art Can Help”, the afterword reminded me of this quote from “What Is Happiness” regarding what art is:“It seems to me the quality that makes any book, music, painting worthwhile is life, just that.

Nov 9, 2024 | dissidentmuse.substack.com | Robert Adams |Walter Darby Bannard |Franklin Einspruch

The prodigiously published, widely feted, and extensively exhibited Robert Adams published Art Can Help in 2017, to assert that “It is a responsibility of artists to pay attention to the world, pleasant or otherwise, and to help us live respectfully in it” (p. 9).