Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Patricia Treib’s upcoming show at Tibor de Nagy wins the award for shortest press release this season. Here it is: Abstract paintings that translate the visual world. In 2006, Treib received an MFA from Columbia University where she studied with Charline Von Heyl, and, previously, she has shown with John […]
In the NYTimes on Tuesday, Roberta Smith revealed her hobby: she and husband Jerry Saltz scour thriftshops, fleamarkets and yard sales for cheap paintings and interesting objects. There is something immensely comforting about these works. They come at you entirely on their own, unencumbered by the name, life or personality […]
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As if you didn’t already suspect it, Two Coats of Paint endorses Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the 2012 Presidential Election. Go check out the campaign store, and buy their merch. Right now the race is so close that supporting Obama/Biden is more important than funding Kickstarter projects. Obamacare […]
After I posted about the new painting faculty at Connecticut College, Brooklyn College and Rutgers University yesterday, I got a note from Sharon Horvath, associate professor at SUNY Purchase, reporting that the School of Art and Design has added three full-time professors to their painting faculty as well. After what […]
This past year, after a dearth of painting listings in 2009-11 at CAA, several colleges posted positions for painting professors. The choices made by these three institutions indicate what skills and attributes each program values–not necessarily who were the best artists or teachers in the pool of applicants. If you […]
Back in July, Gretchen Bennett and Matthew Offenbacher two insightful artists whom I met on my trip to Seattle in May, talked about their ongoingprojects and collaborations with artist-critic Amanda Manitach. Here are excerpts from their fascinating conversation, which was originally published in the blog at New American Paintings. Sorry […]
At Storefront Bushwick, Karen Marston embraces old-fashioned technique and uses plenty of varnish in her painterly reconstructions of disaster photographs culled from the Internet. These mostly easel-sized paintings of tornadoes and firestorms drain the original news images of their elemental power, turning nature’s shock and awe into subject matter for […]
Brooklyn Museum GO, a sprawling open studio event that takes place throughout Brooklyn on September 8 and 9, is in overdrive, sending out announcements, posting to their blog, making videos, organizing meetups, and all the while tweeting updates along the way. An astounding number of artists are participating (and just […]
On the website for the Edouard Vuillard show at The Jewish Museum, a lovely show of gem-like portraits and interiors, I found images of two versions of the Bloch family portrait along with preliminary pastel sketches that reveal how this beautiful painting took shape. Here they are, along with an […]
