Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Emily Colucci has some great thoughts on why "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" at the Brooklyn Museum is such an important show. I want to see it even more now.

Via Hyperallergic

Painter's Palettes

This will only be of use to obsessive painters like myself, but here is a fantastic post of great painters responding and listing their color palettes. Now if only I could figure out what was on Morandi's....

Painting: Powers of Observation

Yvonne Rainer Denounces Marina Abramovic's Planned MOCA Gala Performance as "Grotesque"

I love Marina Abramovic but I agree with Yvonne on this one. Humiliating yourself for art is brave. Paying those in need of money to do so for your art is craven and wrong.

Via Art Info.

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Shown in Cinemas

This is among the dumbest things I have ever heard of.

Via the BBC

Devil's face revealed in Giotto fresco in Italy

Oh Giotto, you clever devil.

Via the BBC

The Common System

Really digging this combination of images and words.

via But Does it Float

"According to the common system, before the creation of Matter, there was nothing but God, whose essence is immutable, and cannot be the pre-existent subject of Bodies"

Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture?

A fun little quiz that tests your eye for minimalism. For the record I got 100% without cheating.

Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture? Online Quiz

Mark Grotjahn

Sometimes even gossip about painters is worthwhile. I love Mark Grotjahn, drunk or sober.

"Intoxicated Mark Grotjahn Passes Out And Still Has Good Night", via the Huffington Post.

Jered Sprecher: Interview

I really dig Jered Sprecher's work and have featured him here before. Check out his interview over at Painter's Bread.

John McAllister

Blogger Caleb De Jong on John McAllister's Damned Sparkling Pomp Show.

Looks like it is worth a visit.

DeCordova Biennial Artists Announced

The DeCordova Museum has announced its list of artists for the next Biennial. Forget the ICA and the Foster Prize, the DeCordova is where you can see the really interesting contemporary New England artists.

The World's Oldest Paint Factory

The oldest known profession.


"Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint."


via the New York Times

Twisting Buildings

I know I've been plugging Architizer Blog a lot lately. But it is pretty great.

Twisting Buildings (Photo Manips)

R.I.P. Stephen Meuller

R.I.P. Stephen Meuller.

Obit via the New York Times

Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal

The TWA Terminal at JFK is finally being restored. Too late for the free open house but this is still exciting news.

via Architizer Blog

The Primitive Cathedral

The cathedral literally returns to its roots. Very nice.


"In 1987, Dutch artist Marinus Boezem planted De Groene Kathedraal (The Green Cathedral), an arboreal tribute that recreates the plan of Reims Cathedral, whose stone columns have been replaced with tall Italian poplars. The trees aren’t expected to reach their peak growth until 2015, when their imposing height will match that of Reims itself." via Architizer Blog.

but does it float

A new painting blog I've been digging. Posts combine images of paintings and quotes. It reminds me of my journal at 16 in a profoundly more intelligent way, and I dig it.

but does it float blog.

Bon Anniversaire, Le Corbusier

I agree, Architizer Blog. I agree.

City Geometry, Seen from Above

Nice perspective.

photo set via the New York Times

Coconut Records "West Coast"

This performance took place on Dec. 13th 1998 at Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany.

It makes me happy.