You know... when a child presents an artwork and it's terrible, you don't want to hurt their feelings, but you don't want to lie, so you say, "That's interesting." That's what Kevin Kresse said about my face, "Interesting." Not kind, not handsome, not manly....

"Yellow Chair..." Scott Prior. My first assignment in Stanley Tasker's freshman drawing class was to visually describe to an alien from another planet how to make a shoe. I failed miserably. My brain wanted to know why in the hell ET might need to make a human shoe?...

"Kavanaugh Night," Tim Jacob, acrylic. I can't mention nocturnes without featuring the paintings of my good friend and childhood neighbor, Tim Jacob. Tim has created a series of night scenes around Little Rock and beyond, most of which are wet with rain on pavement....