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Monday, May 13, 2024
At one point in my painting life, I was drawn obsessively to Symbolist landscape painting, and I’m still rather fond of it. This summer, the National Galleries of Scotland has mounted a show in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum and the Ateneum Art Museum Finnish National Gallery to organize […]
Yesterday Michael H. Miller from GalleristNY was clicking through the New Museum’s recently expanded digital archive and found images from “Bad Painting,” a 1978 exhibition that included work by James Albertson,Joan Brown, Eduardo Carrillo, James Chatelain, William Copley, Charles Garabedian, Robert Chambless Hendon,Joseph Hilton, Neil Jenney, Judith Linhares, P. Walter […]
I love this poster (click to see the entire image). Tomorrow, July 28, Check out the BAZAAR, 1:00 – 6:00pm, rain or shine Buy art from The Museum of Commerce, Hayden Dunham, Josh Hart and Emily Auchinchloss, Graham Collins and Jennie Lee, Tova Carlin, DRAOK, Noah Dillon, Megan Kincheloe, Hannah, […]
In a new online poll, New American Painting wants readers to vote for the most significant painter to emerge since 2000. Here is the preliminary list they have compiled, but readers can vote for other painters in the comments section. Who have they forgotten? Chris Martin Richard Aldrich Tauba Auerbach […]
For the past few weeks, disgusted by artworld shenanigans, posting has been relatively slow while I enjoy a more leisurely summer pace, but I’ve continued to update the Two Coats Twitter feed and post images at @ Grattan and O, my Tumblr journal. Here are a number of links, images, […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I learned via artnet’s Twitter feed that today is Alex Katz birthday, so to celebrate, here are some images from “Alex Katz: Maine/New York,” an exhibition at the Colby Museum of Art that runs through December 30. Curated by Carter Ratcliff, and including work from […]
At The Brooklyn Rail this month, Elizabeth Baker, former editor of Art in America, served as guest editor to the Art section, asking contributors to consider the question, “What’s new?” Writing in her introduction she suggested that Among the artists, words like �progress,� �innovation,� and �originality� barely crop up. Yet […]
Yesterday in the NYTimes, Tim Kreider wrote an op-ed that will ring true for plenty of artists. If you live in America in the 21st century you�ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It�s become the default response when you ask […]
Inspired by all the open studio events and the ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, The Brooklyn Museum is organizing a crowd-curated exhibition of Brooklyn artists. Called GO, the the exhibition requires artists to register by submitting images and information to a database, participating in an open studio weekend in September, […]
