In The Age Kylie Northover reports that Southern Californian Josh Agle‘s ideal world be one long, stylish cocktail party, circa 1965. “Agle, in Melbourne for […]
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The Knutson and Simmons experience in Seattle
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Regina Hackett reports that Michael Knutson and Jeffrey Simmons paint the way “sailors scrape barnacles off a deck, chipping away at […]
Murakami’s marketing organism arrives in Brooklyn (yawn)
If you’re interested in the Murakami spectacle, check out the roundup of reviews TCOP ran when the show exploded in LA : The Takashi Murakami […]
Mattera’s pics of the NY fairs
Joanne Mattera went into the New York fairs knowing that she couldn�t do the same kind of intensive reporting she does in Miami, so she […]
Modern Art Notes: All Amy Sillman all the time
At Modern Art Notes, Tyler Green dedicates the week to New York painter Amy Sillman, who currently has a show at the Hirshhorn in DC. […]
Let’s Go: Glasgow
In The Guardian Adrian Searle reports that the Glasgow International Festival, founded in 2004, is slated to become a regular biennial. “Building on its low-budget, […]
Angolan civil war refugee Nelson Da Costa earns his MFA in Boston
Up at my alma mater, the Tufts University Art Gallery continues its series of MFA thesis exhibitions from the School of the Museum of Fine […]
Tom McKinley and Albert Oehlen in San Franciso
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker reports. “A paradox has always lain close to the heart of abstract painting: the idea of a picture […]
A message for painters who don’t have time to paint
I recently received this note from The Oil Painting Studio, a group of formally-trained Chinese painters who would like to create paintings from your sketches, […]
Schwabsky tours the New York galleries in search of genre painting
In The Nation Barry Schwabsky reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of “bad” representational painting. “‘Painting as we know it,’ Alberto Giacometti […]
Abts in heaven
New Museum is presenting the first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967). Abts creates surprising, small […]
Ashley Bickerton’s exotic fruit
Bali-based Bickerton hires models and actors, paints directly on their faces and bodies, then photographs them. The images are then altered digitally, printed on canvas, […]
It’s a horse race: Kentucky Derby art auction party in Dumbo
Public service announcement: $250 gets you into Smack Mellon’s annual fundraiser, and you’re guaranteed to take home artwork determined by a random drawing. It’s a […]
Twelve artists, 24 hours, one house
In Philadelphia Weekly, Steven Wells stops by My House Gallery during a 24-hour drawing marathon. “They�re working on a strip of paper taped to the […]
Visionary artist needs help in California
Will Oremus reports in the San Mateo Daily News that a woman who paints her homes and cars with rants about government conspiracies has been […]
