morandi

I used to think that the magazine Modern Painters was both interesting and worth my time. I'm pretty sure that I'm less pretentious than my younger self although the proliferation of posts about italian bikes, famous chess gambits, glitch and Damien Hirst may suggest otherwise. My time seems to be more precious now too. The 1997 summer issue of Modern Painters contained the most eloquently written article about an artist that until then, I'd never heard of. That artist was Georgio Morandi. The author was Siri Hustveldt. Modern Painters has never been the same. Neither have I.