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Monday evening I went to the Film Center to see a couple movies about artists. The first was a biopic about Egon Schiele, which was very professionally done but which I started forgetting while it was still running; the second was a documentary about Lithuanian photographer Vitas Luckus called Master and Tatyana. There’s a lot toContinue reading “Master and Tatyana”

My parents came to visit last week. I rented a car at O’Hare and picked them up. Over their three days here we ate a lot of good food, drank some decent wine, had some good talks, and looked at a lot of art; mostly mine. On previous recent visits they were able to stayContinue reading “Parents”

Pleasant House used to be in Bridgeport but is now in Pilsen. They serve savory pies, so of course I was a regular at the old location—a cramped converted pizza shop next to Maria’s Bar at 31st & Morgan. In fact, I did a painting of the intersection where the shop used to be asContinue reading “Pleasant House”