Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of The Art Instinct: Beauty, […]
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The Art Newspaper and Robert Storr
The Art Newspaper interview with Robert Storr has been circulating online for the past few days. In case you haven’t already seen it posted elsewhere, […]
Danny Simmons: Twisted looping lines and amped-up color schemes
Danny Simmons, “Broken and Now Through,” 2007, mixed media on canvas, 30 x 30″ Ben Genocchio reports in the NY Times that Danny Simmons’s 15-year […]
Richard Mayhew’s improvisational trees
Richard Mayhew “Untitled (Purple Landscape).” Courtesy Museum of the African Diaspora. Richard Mayhew, “Westwood,” 1977, oil on canvas, 54 x 44″, de Saisset Museum […]
“Conservative, but still appreciated by people”
Matthew Cerletty, “David Brooks,” (2009) Via Sarah Douglas at ArtInfo: At the booth of Antwerp gallery Office Baroque is a small, highly realistic painting of […]
Yigal Ozeri’s paintings
Matthew Bourbon writes in ArtForum that Yigal Ozeri’s paintings of young girls may be problematic conceptually, but they’re somewhat redeemed by his sensitive paint handling. […]
Painting isn’t so easy
Martin Gayford reports on the latest startling departure for Damien Hirst: In his new show at the Wallace Collection, he’s made the paintings himself. “As […]
Burchfield in Buffalo and LA
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight calls the Hammer Museum’s Charles Burchfield show, organized by artist Robert Gober, breathtaking. In ArtNews, Hilarie M. Sheets reports […]
Adopt some fine art today
Austin Thomas,”Mars,” 1997, 3 x 4″ Austin Thomas, recent drawing from sketchbook. Austin Thomas announced this week that she will placing more artwork up for […]
NY Times Art in Review: Matt Chambers, Xu Zhen
Matthew Chambers, “A Day of Which we Say, This is the Day,” 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 96 x 48″ “Matt Chambers: An Activity […]
Institutionalized self-promotion: I’m all that
The Promotion Project, which includes my (embarrassingly) self-regarding application for promotion and all your amazing letters of support, has grown to fill 5 binders and […]
Ran Ortner wins biggest art prize ever
Ran Ortner, a painter from Brooklyn, was named the grand prize winner Thursday night in the ArtPrize, a public competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. He […]
Online archive of van Gogh’s letters launched in Amsterdam
The last page of a three-page letter Vincent van Gogh wrote to Paul Gauguin from Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Tuesday, 17 June 1890 The van […]
“It�s like I don�t know what I�m doing but I know how to do it, and it�s very strange”
Luc Tuymans, “The Secretary of State,” 2005, oil on canvas , 17.91 x 24.21 x 1.57″ In The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl declares that Luc […]
Virginia Martinsen’s solution
Virginia Martinsen’s studio. In The Village Voice Robert Shuster reports that newcomer Virginia Martinsen is reinvigorating Ab Ex ideas and process. Abstract expressionism is now […]
