Sharon Butler, “Red Rimmed,” 2011, acrylic on canvas, 11″ x 14.” UPDATE(September 3, 2011): NURTUREart received a record number of submissions this year–over 600–and will select 150 pieces for the exhibition. Thanks everyone for submitting. The benefit will take place at the Chelsea Art Museum on October 11.Tickets are $200 […]

 Kevin Regan, collages from 1996 at STOREFRONT This weekend is the last chance to see Kevin Regan (co-director of Famous Accountants) and Cooper Holoweski‘s show at  STOREFRONT. Holoweski presents mixed-media pieces about the dream of a middle-class utopia. Using imagery that ranges from Herman Miller furniture to the Ford Elmont […]

Vik Muniz, Woman Ironing (Isis), from the series “Pictures of Garbage”, 2008, AP1 of 3+3AP, digital C-Print, 143 x 101,6 cm /56,3 x 40 in, MUNI0088 I just saw “Waste Land,” Vik Muniz’s 2010 documentary about the impoverished garbage pickers of the Jardim Gramacho landfill. At 321-acres, the open-air dump […]

Here are the QR codes I just created for my website and Two Coats of Paint. I’m tempted to make paintings of them, but alas, it’s all been done before….but maybe I should make some animated GIFs…?   Related posts:  An afternoon at the New Britain Museum with Carol Padberg […]

  This renovated historic house in a charming New England coastal village is available for rent, $2600 per month. 3 Bedrooms, 3 full baths, excellent kitchen, efficient central heating, wood stove, 2 studio rooms in attic, two hours east of New York via Route 95 or Amtrak. Interested parties should […]

Ezra Johnson, “The Time of Tall Statues (Still),” 2009, single channel video, duration: 14 minutes, Edition: 2/6 + 2AP. �Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening� by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping […]

Interdisciplinary artist Rachel Hines performs a work called Interview during ARTexchange in New York (photograph by Bradley Marks).   This year I’m helping organize (and co-host)  ARTexchange at the 2012 College Art Association Annual Conference. ARTexchange is an open forum for sharing work, and unlike many of the events at […]

Todd James, “TBC,” 2011, gouache and graphite on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Images courtesy Paul Kasmin. “Pretty on the Inside,” an anxiety-provoking group show of figurative work at Paul Kasmin, will make you forget the ennui of contemporary abstraction. Todd James‘s eye-popping gouaches, fusing cartooning and a seventies […]