Contributed by Jon Lutz / This summer I had the good fortune to do a four-week residency at Villa Lena, an international program located in the hills […]
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Rafaël Rozendaal: Post-internet giddy
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / Rafaël Rozendaal’‘s “Anti-Social” is polyglot, and speaks all at once. Stretched on a support for canvas is a Jacquard textile […]
Two Coats Resident Artist Gyan Shrosbree returns in October
This October, former Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist Gyan Shrosbree returns from Iowa for a week. “Since my last residency, I’ve been focused primarily […]
Art and Film: Aronofsky�s Bosch-esque mother!
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Albert Oehlen is perhaps foremost among visual artists seeking to capture the jangled frenzy of the Internet Age, having done […]
Artist’s notebook: Cable Griffith
Contributed by Cable Griffith / While making this work, I’ve tried to remind myself, and hopefully others, of the fundamental connection between everyone and everything. […]
Calvin Ross Carl’s post-internet confectionary wisdom
Contributed by Sharon Arnold / As I open the front door to Robert Yoder’s SEASON, a gallery housed in his beautifully renovated mid-century home, I’m […]
Invitation: A Symposium on Contemporary Painting
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On Friday, September 15, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art in Portland is hosting a […]
Gallery crawl in Hudson
Contributed by Suzanne Joelson / In Hudson, New York, among the soap shopsand home furnishings boutiquesare a few galleries where painting thrives, notably John Davis, […]
Andrea Belag: Making changes
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Andrea Belag is best known for making dark, stormy abstractions in which fat, translucent brushstrokes�swoop and twist around large-scale canvases. […]
Openings: Selected exhibitions, September 2017
After a lazy August, we�re ready to get back to the galleries and see some paintings, the kind that are�so new�and fresh we can still […]
documenta 14: The emotional thump
Contributed by Loren Britton / Banu Cenneto?lu‘s work in documenta 14 BEINGSAFEISSCARY�cleverly rearranges and edits the building text from the Kassel Fridericianum�s fa�ade into a […]
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Here are a few job listings, many of which are from Academic Keys, a website that specializes in academic�employment. The keyword on this search was��painting.� […]
Jenny Zoe Casey on the closing of MAPP
Dear Sharon, This summer, after 23 years, MAPP International Productions closed its doors. The same week it closed, the New York Times noted a trend […]
Painter partners: Gary Stephan and Suzanne Joelson
Contributed by Sharon Butler / For nearly 40 years, painters Gary Stephan and Suzanne Joelson have spent summers in an old farmhouse located in a small […]
Art and film: Kogonada and Modernism in “Columbus”
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Columbus is a serenely penetrating postmodern film, acted with realistic understatement and set in the eponymous city in Indiana — […]
Art and film: �Detroit� and Faulkner�s truth
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / William Faulkner famously said, �The past is never dead. It�s not even past.� That is a key truth about one […]
Images: Elizabeth Gilfilen
After a period exploring the notion of restraint–paring down her palette�and limiting the number of marks–Elizabeth Gilfilen�has returned to epic struggle. In her pulsating new […]
Selections: Trestle’s big show of small works
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This year Trestle Gallery�s summer group show, �Small Work,� was curated by Bill Carroll, a painter and the director at […]
Recognition for artists: Sondheim Artscape Prize in Baltimore
Baltimore�s most prestigious art prize is the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a sizable�fellowship�awarded to artists who live or work in the Baltimore region. […]
Film: A strategic retreat�s smirk of defiance in DUNKIRK
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /In his paradoxically granular war epic Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan assumes viewers know that the British Army�s 1940 strategic retreat from the […]
