Bushwick Open Studios takes place this weekend, and we�ve gone through the BOS listings, Facebook posts, and our overstuffed inbox to select a few shows […]
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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 […]
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 symposium�in […]
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.� […]
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 […]
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 � […]
MFA report: Hrag Vartanian finds �home” in RISD painting studios
MFA exhibitions invariably�must encompass�a vast range of disparate material, and it�s a stiff challenge for a�guest curator to create a unified show�that frames a�cohesive�experience for […]
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 […]
Quick study
Articles this week concern�talented female artists over 60, playwrights tackling�the heartbreaking�heroin epidemic, the link between smart phones and teenage depression, Donald Trump�s stupid drawing, art […]
Philadelphia conversation: Lovitz, Hoffmann, Granwell at Fleisher/Ollman
Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / Alchemy, Typology, Entropy at Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, features painting and sculpture by three talented artists who live and work locally: […]
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 […]
