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 […]
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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.� […]
EMAIL: 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 in small and […]
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 […]
Adirondack idyll: Jay Invitational of Clay, Rockwell Kent, Ausable Chasm & more
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Some artists�go upstate to get away from the art world in the summer, and others gather an�art […]
Fiction: Light [Rand Richards Cooper]
FOR THIS EDITION of the summer fiction column, my old friend�Rand Richards Cooper has contributed �Light,� a poignant story �published in Big as Life, his�1996 […]
“Painting Not Painting” in Baltimore
Contributed by Sharon Butler / �”Painting Not Painting� is an exhibition at ‘sindikit, the�project space run by Tim Doud and Zo� Charlton�in Baltimore.�Artists include Paolo […]
Gretchen Frances Bennett�s tenderness
Gretchen Frances Bennett: “Objects that appear in my�drawings are pieced together place holders, in an ongoing search for the things that stay. They�speak to a […]
Images: Becky Brown, Annette Cords, and accidental poetry
According to the press release for �Cognition-Stroll,� a collaborative exhibition on view at Project:ARTspace that features Annette Cords and Becky Brown, the hyphenated term is a literal English translation of […]
