The galleries are reopening and polite viewers, social-distanced and masked, are emerging, eager to run into one another and talk about what we’ve all just […]
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Joan Snyder: Painting from the inside out
Contributed by Jason Andrew / In a 1976 Cincinnati Enquirer review of Joan Snyder�s paintings, the reviewer, Owen Findsen, surmised that she had �picked up […]
Brandi Twilley and life in the studio
Contributed by Caroline Wells Chandler/ I met Brandi Twilley back in 2008 when we started graduate school together at Yale. Both Southerners and eager for […]
Art and Film: DIY festival for readers who miss NYC
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Even deprived of movie houses, cinephiles abhor a vacuum. Criterion may be their readiest source for a themed set of […]
Radical reorientation: Rural life, politics, and a pandemic in Joshua Tree
Contributed by Mary Addison Hackett / “How’s everyone doing?” is the occasional check-in I see posted among artist friends who haven’t completely jumped the Facebook […]
The objectness of Rachael Gorchov
Contributed by Jason Andrew / There is a long history of artists expanding the objectness — that is, the sculptural dimension — of painting. Picasso […]
Summertime blues: Clark, Fagan, Carrigan, Dubicki, Hocker, and Samelson in Torrington
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / To walk into an open art gallery during this COVID-caused gloaming of the art world is perhaps to catch a […]
Sobriety, resilience, and hope at Massey Klein Gallery
Contributed by Riad Miah / Emerging from lockdown, Massey Klein Gallery on the Lower East Side has reopened its doors, if only by appointment, with […]
Portraits of a president
Contributed by Sharon Butler / CNN reported that the official portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been removed from the […]
Finding Esphyr Slobdokina
Contributed by Peter Plagens / When the annual The Armory Show art fair — which takes place on the piers on the Hudson River in […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: Summer 2020
Does time exist if there aren’t activities and events to fill it up? According to Aristotle and other philosophers, no. Time is inexorably connected to […]
Quick study
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Once I finally dragged myself away from political news, there was a lot to learn. Here are links to some […]
What good is abstract painting now?
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Without any bombs exploding or even a single shot fired, the world we knew before COVID has gone poof. Sure, […]
Art and Film: In the zone
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Rod Serling trademarked the creeping alteration of reality as a feature […]
In the absence of knowing
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Theodore:Art has reopened its Bushwick space with a handsome and enigmatic show that reminds me of the series of Bruno […]
Consciousness raising: Social media
Contributed by Sharon Butler / The time has come to leave Facebook and engage in online activities elsewhere. Difficult though it may seem to leave […]
Quick study: A new day
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here is a selection of art articles I’ve gathered from sites around the internet this week, including Painters on Painting, […]
Covid-19: A cultural draft notice
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The current of disgust, loathing, and anger in the liberal white consciousness has been pretty steady since Donald Trump was […]
Radical reorientation: Leaving New York
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Joy Garnett, an artist I met via her formidable art blog NEWSgrist (“where spin is art”) in the early art […]
Quick study: The quiet city
Contributed by Sharon Butler / How’s everyone doing out there? The streets of New York have calmed down in the past few weeks, with far […]
