Wednesday, July 31, 2019

TRUE CRIME ~





One of the better books on the map line of a criminal family.
Published before The Mueller Report.
The author's next book, aligned with this one,
will be ~ 



published August 12, 2019







Sunday, July 28, 2019

WOODSHED 7 ~








( joplin, house
as I pass thru)
bob





Saturday, July 27, 2019

WOODSHED 6 ~






( get to the tool room
— grab the handle)
bob



Friday, July 26, 2019

WOODSHED 5 ~





( whispered to me as I passed
thru the woodshed into the tool room
bob)











Thursday, July 25, 2019

RUTGER HAUER ~






R U T G E R      H A U E R

1944 ~ 2019, Netherlands

GERTRUDE BENHAM (CLIMBER) ~












WOODSHED 4 ~






( in the woodshed )
bob







Wednesday, July 24, 2019

WOODSHED 3 ~







( passing through the woodshed )
bob






Tuesday, July 23, 2019

WOODSHED 2 ~










( on the woodshed wall )
bob



Monday, July 22, 2019

FAREWELL, PAUL KRASSNER ~







1932 ~ 2019













WOODSHED 1 ~






I'm posting a week of photographs taken in early spring 2019
as I pass through our woodshed and into my tool room to
fetch hammer, draw knife, axe, saws, level etc.,
since there is another woods cottage to build
and I'll build it over the 
spring, summer, fall
on stone
in fact very close to the stone hut
I built in 1985 —
I just may have more to say as I build over those months
but for now when I walk through the big woodshed
and into my tool room
these are photographs and drawings
showing up on the walls after the wood has been burned.




photograph by bob arnold
april late 2019



Sunday, July 21, 2019

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

STEVE CANNON ~







S T E V E       C A N N O N

1935 ~ 2019




Creditphoto ~Michael Nagle for The New York Times




BOMBINO ~










Monday, July 15, 2019

BOB ARNOLD "DOE" (ARCHIVE) ~













Donald Hall was the Poetry Editor at Country Journal.
He accepted poems of mine over some years and over the
next few weeks I'll show the magazine and the poems.
My book Yokel will be shown in its entirety starting in
September.







Sunday, July 14, 2019

OKLAHOMA HILLS ~











ARLO & JACK ~








EAST TEXAS RED ~








OUR LAND ~






Here is one of the finest paragraphs in the book:
“Berlin and Guthrie shared a midcentury balance of confidence without machismo, a stoicism born of deprivation, a toughness born of struggle, a steadiness that neither sought nor feared difficulty, tempered with a hope and optimism born of having survived hard times. Our patriotic songwriters who have followed them haven’t had that mix.”



R E A D      M E




Public Affairs
2013







Friday, July 12, 2019

PYOTR PAVLENSKY ~




CreditCapucine Henry/Associated Press






“The government’s aim is to suppress or neutralize art, to reduce me to a vandal, a madman, a provocateur,” he told me earlier, “but the criminal case becomes one of the layers of the artwork, the portal through which you enter and see the mechanisms of power exposed.”

 — PAVLENSKY