One artist captures time’s arrow; another mourns the victims of time’s wheel while the third tells no stories at all. These insights flow from only two paintings: Hals’ “Pieter Jacobsz. Rivers’ art is cool, in the Marshall McLuhan sense. In Rivers’ art, the Boston Massacre is more like a recurring nightmare than a one-time historical event. No two Gilliam pieces are ever the same and that’s what I love about his work.”The Ringling is at 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota.

Source: The Herald February 12, 2021 12:56 UTC