Picasso in his signature striped shirt, cigarette dangling from his mouth, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a gun. Bizarre–reminds me of Cindy Sherman’s early […]

Youthfulness in old age: At A Year of Positive Thinking, Mira Schor writes about the work artists make at the end of their lives. “Two […]

My favorite quote from all the post-Miami anti-artworld posts that have gone online this week is this excerpt from Charles Saatchi’s Comment in the Guardian.  […]

For the past week or two I’ve been working on a project that requires some research, and this morning I came across these Jockum Nordstr�m […]

Today the Tate announces the winner of the Turner Prize, so let’s take a look at a video interview of finalist George Shaw, one of […]

Jacco Olivier creates short, intimate animations of his paintings. Concise narrative episodes appear in a microcosmic world that depicts moments from daily life– a bus […]

I have a writing deadline this week so posting will be scant, but I came across an interesting 2003 Bomb Magazine interview between Joe Fyfe […]

I’ve been meaning to give the blog a DIY design overhaul for a while, and the time has finally come–please bear with me while I […]

In August I was invited to contribute an essay to the 25th anniversary edition of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, an extraordinary collaboration […]

I love Alice Sebrell‘s photograph of Pat Passlof that ran with Pat’s obituary in the NYTimes. “A member of the New York school of Abstract […]