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09/15/2023

A lady asks: "How much do you sell your eggs for?"

The old vendor replies "50¢ an egg, madam.” The lady says, “I'll take 6 eggs for $2.50 or I'm leaving.”

The old salesman replies “Buy them at the price you want, Madam. This is a good start for me because I haven't sold a single egg today and I need this to live.”

She bought her eggs at a bargain price and left with the feeling that she had won.

She got into her fancy car and went to a fancy restaurant with her friend. She and her friend ordered what they wanted. They ate a little and left a lot of what they had asked for.

They paid the bill, which was $150. The ladies gave $200 and told the fancy restaurant owner to keep the change as a tip...

This story might seem quite normal to the owner of the fancy restaurant, but very unfair to the egg seller...

The question it raises is:

𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙮?
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆?

I once read this somewhere ,that a father used to buy goods from poor people at high prices, even though he didn't need the things. Sometimes he paid more for them.

I was amazed. One day his son asked him "Why are you doing this Dad?" His father replied: "It's charity wrapped in dignity, son."

I want to challenge each one of us to do better. We can do that.

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03/12/2019

https://dinaburgarts.com/macadams-arttalk/schiciano/simone-kearney

simple and complex. Rectangles of unstretched muslin are painted with water-based dyes and acrylics, sewn into grids consisting of twelve panels. Each section presents a binary of two colors that collide and mingle at diluted horizons so as to suggest peaks, valleys, mountains, wind, and waves. The

12/11/2018

https://dinaburgarts.com/macadams-arttalk/macadam/elaine-de-kooning

Dealer Jim Levis is devoted to amplifying the reputations of under-acknowledged talents, and that includes Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and Hedda Stern, among others. Inaugurating his new Chelsea gallery is a fascinating, often enlightening show of paintings by de Kooning (or E de K), dating f

09/04/2018

MacAdam & Co. ArtTalk, DARK M**O by Helen Sweatman

In the dead of winter, on an island at the southernmost tip of Australia, there is a festival that conflates ancient and contemporary mythology. Humans and nature, religious and secular, darkness and light, birth and death are all mixed into a sensual gothic cauldron that bubbles and overflows on th

07/10/2018

THE DUALITIES OF ADAM ArtTalk Issue #6 The Dualities of Adam

Around half a decade ago, I was fortunate to come upon the work of the artists and writers of the San Francisco Renaissance, in particular, the collages of Jess and the poems of Robert Duncan. I found Jess’s collages especially exciting as they appeared to be in a state of constant expansion packe...

06/01/2018

https://dinaburgarts.com/macadams-arttalk/

Narrative abstraction looks at expression in the broadest sense, addressing everything from motion to storytelling to music and even mystery in the way forms and colors relate to one another and evolve through implication or suggestion, and in the way viewers interject storylines or action

10/24/2017

RUSSELL MALTZ

"S.P._B.Y.W #117 (Needle)" (2017)
Enamel and acrylic on wood
126 x 4.25 x 7 in

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What conceptual/minimalist/process artist Russell Maltz does is let us experience his means and method of production. He picks up stray industrial and building materials and provides us with the tools for looking at his work. He shows where ideas might be stored and wait to be assembled. By stacking or layering or randomly scattering the pieces, he allows the materials’ inherent properties to create their own relationships and associations. Here, for example, a peg-board panel gives its accompanying suspended strips of wood an unexpected attitude, even playfulness. The parts may be arranged and rearranged to integrate with one another and with the architecture or landscape of their surroundings.

In the case of these “needle” sculptures, Maltz shows the structures in between parts—giving that space a shape and substance of its own. It’s as if he cut out the zips in a Barnet Newman painting and made them solid. They pe*****te empty space.

But Maltz is also a painter, and he asserts himself with striking off-key, neon colors that leap out like signals--traffic lights, for example--conveying directions for looking and advising when and where to pause to consider, connect, disassemble, and reconnect parts. Maltz is building nothing—or everything.

Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Suspended at MINUS SPACE from September 9 to October 28, 2017.

Image courtesy of MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn

10/24/2017

WARDELL MILAN

"Turin, Bianca" (2015)
graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, pastel, gesso, cut-and-pasted paper on paper
60 x 44 in

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Wardell Milan’s image exemplifies the way an artwork can entice by being simultaneously straightforward and strangely elusive. We are drawn into the mystery of the drawing’s incompleteness and disarming psychological complexity, from the figure’s pockets of musculature up through the sharpness of its facial features . The floor is a vertiginous pattern of tiles that help establish a sense of imbalance. Ultimately, this masterful pastiche of line and gesture collaged together by ample space to serve as glue and invitation to engage is an elegant testimony to the power of art and suggestion.

Image courtesy of David Nolan Gallery, New York

09/26/2017

We've launched MacAdam's ArtTalk!

Barbara MacAdam's first article is on "Taste and Tastemakers"

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ArtTalk #1: Taste and Tastemakers September 25, 2017 I’d like to begin this column with a basic question that I welcome you all to weigh in on: what is good art and what is bad art?Is there really such a dichotomy? And if so, how do we decide?We could base it on instinct, we could consider art-histo...

09/13/2017

Beautiful work by Sarah Lee, "Untitled (17-02)" (2017) •