I’ve been teaching drawing for many years, and there are several different, valid ways to approach the subject. I have my way, derived from long experience, that is based on what I think is something common to older artists: we know we can do it, and...

Okay, I’m months behind on this, but the video has Picasso’s grandson Bernard in it, and that’s a great reason to feature it. This is Olga’s grandson too. I always felt bad for poor Olga. Tweet This Post

This interview is from 1996, and it’s about the film Basquiet.  I’m posting it because David Bowie is in it, and I’ve always been nuts about Bowie. Tweet This Post

I was introduced to Kathe Kollwitz by a wonderful German artist, Susi Ettinger. She was my drawing teacher when I was nineteen years old. She spoke very highly of her, and I was struck immediately by these images. This woman could draw! She could,...

I featured Alexander Liberman yesterday, simply because he had a day job, which was not his first love. Charlie Rose interviewed him in 1996, and it’s a nice follow-up to yesterday’s video. He’d aged a bit. We all do that. The Artist in His...