The snow on the fire escape this morning (courtesy of superstorm Jonas) reminded me of this 2008 piece about Loren MacIver that I originally published […]
Artist’s Notebook
Your January 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 September 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 August 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 […]
Barbara Campbell Thomas: Ten Images (or An Abstract Painter�s Pilgrimage to Italy)
Guest Contributor Barbara Campbell Thomas / Journeying to Italy in order to bask in the perfectly toned muscular glow of High Renaissance art is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
