Category Archives: The back of the MIRROR

Musings written by Tony

Serious Play?

In these GoGo get-it-done times, we don’t often match the words ADULT and PLAY. Get past the gooey, touchy feel­ing that you get when a hired facil­i­ta­tor walks into the room wear­ing a crazy hat and starts throw­ing squishy toys at every­one.  As you will see in the arti­cles below, mak­ing play a part of

Irony? Or the how the rest of the world sees art

Gene Wein­garten wrote a col­umn the other day about how he man­aged to bluff his way through judg­ing an art show.  Here is my take on it.  I enjoyed laugh­ing along with Gene as he tripped his way through his art judg­ing expe­ri­ence.  Imag­ine the momen­tary red face when Cissy told him he would be

Art talks. Now answer…

Art is an inspi­ra­tion engine, spit­ting off cre­ative exhaust at a rate too fast to cap­ture with your eyes alone. Bring pen­cil and paper when you get in front of art. Then become a reporter and write down what­ever the art is telling you. A few exam­ples of my art diaries are found else­where on