Guest Contributor Barbara Campbell Thomas / Journeying to Italy in order to bask in the perfectly toned muscular glow of High Renaissance art is a […]
Artist’s Notebook
Your July Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Your June Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Joshua Sevits: Ten Images
Guest contributor Joshua Sevits / After paying what seemed like highway robbery for admission to the Armory Show and a bizarro salmon sandwich with coffee […]
Your Monthly Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Artist’s house for sale: Mystic, Connecticut
UPDATE (Dec. 23): We have a contract on the house, but there’s a contingency clause–we agreed to give the buyers time to sell their […]
Studio update: Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program
I’ll be working in Long Island City for the next few months and then heading back to DUMBO, where I’ve been invited to participate […]
Colleagues: Judith Schaechter and Eileen Neff
Two of my talented colleagues at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts have solo shows in Chelsea this month. At Claire Oliver, Judith Schaechter presents […]
Secondary usage: Four questions and answers
I recently received an email from artist and curator Brendan Carroll with the following four questions, and since I spent a fair amount of time […]
A Day in New York: Jenny Zoe Casey
Running into local friends at openings isn’t that unusual, but every now and then I see Jenny Zoe Casey, the artist who organized and invited […]
Looking back: Precisionism
Contributed by Sharon Butler /Back in the 1920s during the early days of industrialization, the Precisionists were drawn to the welded geometric forms of steel mills, bridges, water towers, smoke stacks, factory complexes, and coal mines.
Dear Tamara, and other letters about art
This month, Raphael Rubinstein is the guest editor of the Rail’s ArtSeen section. Citing letters from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, and the […]
How long does it take Brice Marden to make a painting?
In this 2009 conversation with Harry Cooper, curator at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, that was recorded at Brice Marden’s (Manhattan) studio, Marden […]
Part I: Where is Joshua Abelow?
Over the summer Joshua Abelow, painter and editor of ART BLOG ART BLOG, started a gallery (also called ART BLOG ART BLOG) in a Chelsea space generously donated by Abelow’s former boss (and friend), Ross Bleckner. Abelow invited friends and acquaintances to organize quick two-week exhibitions that mimicked the fast pace of his blog, and the project became a focal point for the painting community during what is generally a slow time in Chelsea. In October, when Bleckner returned from summer in the Hamptons, the space closed.
George Hofmann and Laurie Fendrich on artists’ writing, and the Duccio Fragments series
Recently George Hofmann, a faculty member from 1967 to 2002 in the legendary Hunter College art program, contributed a post to Art Critical about […]
Chris Martin’s bigness
When I first started writing for The Rail, in an article about the Tomma Abts show at the New Museum, I took a quote from […]
Studio Update
As readers may already know, I recently moved into a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC. For the new series of […]
Recto or Verso: What kind of artist are you?
Barnett Newman, Two Edges, 1948, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. Museum of Modern Art, gift of Annalee Newman (by exchange). Barnett Newman Foundation […]
Painting of the Day: “Meeting” by Adam Simon
This amazing painting (which looks far better on the wall than it does as a jpeg) was recently featured in “Ocketopia” a group show […]
What I’m working on
I spoke to the University of Connecticut senior painting majors last night during a CAA-style presentation (notes, images, podium, and so forth). The talk covered […]
