New Piece Febraury 2022. Mixed on Board. Two views. Up close and personal and from a distance.

 

Art 6 California Notebook Drawings

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 on line and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists' Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.

 

Sally Kellerman 1937-2022

 

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael a film by Rob Garver

 

I wasn't much taken with this safe documentary on the late film critic which makes no mention at all of her homophobic laced reviews. Granted they were early in her career when gays were treated with hatred and ridicule in most areas of life including film criticism. She wasn't the only one who tossed off anti gay slurs in their writings, but she was a disaster for me growing up and reading her nasty takes of gays and lesbians. Also barely  mentioned is her relationship with the gay writer and filmmaker James Broughton who she had a daughter with. Its all smooth sailing with the usual suspects and Paulettes bowing down to her. Fine but there is nothing in the documentary about the anti-Paulettes especially Vito Russo who hounded her for her homophobia and homophobic reviews  and no mention of her near death bed apology to the gay community for her treatment of us. So watch it for sure. I did. But I came away feeling the same way I’ve always felt about her. Disgust.  

 

Dan Graham 1942-2022

 

Art 5

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 on line and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists' Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.