Close is an inspiration and his talk was by turns funny and enlightening. The artist also did student critiques the next day at Penn and I hear he was a thoughtful, generous critic. P.S. By the way, the artist has an exhibit of recent paintings opening May 10 at Pace Wildenstein on 25th St. And a Penn student I spoke with who went out with Close for drinks after the student critiques said Close told them he was working on a portrait of his friend Inka Essenhigh. More on Essenhigh here.
close, chuck
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