In The Guardian Adrian Searle reports that the Glasgow International Festival, founded in 2004, is slated to become a regular biennial. “Building on its low-budget, […]
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Angolan civil war refugee Nelson Da Costa earns his MFA in Boston
Up at my alma mater, the Tufts University Art Gallery continues its series of MFA thesis exhibitions from the School of the Museum of Fine […]
Tom McKinley and Albert Oehlen in San Franciso
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker reports. “A paradox has always lain close to the heart of abstract painting: the idea of a picture […]
A message for painters who don’t have time to paint
I recently received this note from The Oil Painting Studio, a group of formally-trained Chinese painters who would like to create paintings from your sketches, […]
Schwabsky tours the New York galleries in search of genre painting
In The Nation Barry Schwabsky reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of “bad” representational painting. “‘Painting as we know it,’ Alberto Giacometti […]
Abts in heaven
New Museum is presenting the first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967). Abts creates surprising, small […]
Ashley Bickerton’s exotic fruit
Bali-based Bickerton hires models and actors, paints directly on their faces and bodies, then photographs them. The images are then altered digitally, printed on canvas, […]
It’s a horse race: Kentucky Derby art auction party in Dumbo
Public service announcement: $250 gets you into Smack Mellon’s annual fundraiser, and you’re guaranteed to take home artwork determined by a random drawing. It’s a […]
Twelve artists, 24 hours, one house
In Philadelphia Weekly, Steven Wells stops by My House Gallery during a 24-hour drawing marathon. “They�re working on a strip of paper taped to the […]
Visionary artist needs help in California
Will Oremus reports in the San Mateo Daily News that a woman who paints her homes and cars with rants about government conspiracies has been […]
The utopian promise of Modernism at the Aldrich Museum
�Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture� presents 2-dimensional work that explores the architecture and utopian ideas of the modern period. �The artists are […]
How Thomas Nozkowski scaled back the rules and rhetoric
I forgot to include the three small Nozkowski paintings at the Armory Show on my list of most compelling small-scale paintings at the recent NYC […]
Death by blogging
In the NYTimes, Matt Richtel reports that blogging is stressful. “To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature […]
Poe art in London
In anticipation of the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe�s birth (1809), White Cube’s exhibition “You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil” explores the enduring […]
“Someone is going to come ’round here and buy all my paintings at one time for $40,000.”
Earl Cunningham (1893 – 1977), a prolific landscape artist who worked from memory, is considered a “folk modernist” whose work conveys some of the complex […]
