Archive for May, 2010
David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Dallas, David Bates, Kansas City, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Painting on May 21, 2010| 7 Comments »
David Bates: The Katrina Paintings at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, May 21-August 22, 2010. Alice Thorson has written about the exhibit in the Kansas City Star. You’ll also recall that Bates was one of the artists named by Roberta Smith as under-recognized in her challenge to NY museums and curators a month or two ago in the NY Times.
Courbet’s “Soleil Couchant, Marine” from the Spencer Museum of Art
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Courbet, Lawrence KS, paint, Painting, Seascape, Spencer Museum, University of Kansas on May 19, 2010| 2 Comments »
Gustave Courbet, Soleil Couchant, Marine, 1869, oil on panel, 15 1/2″ x 22″, from the collection of the Spencer Museum on the campus of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Sloane Snure Paullus in New American Paintings
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Columbia MO, Drawing, Glitter, New American Paintings, Painting, Sloane Snure-Paullus on May 17, 2010| 3 Comments »
Congratulations to Sloane Snure-Paullus, who’s got work represented in the most recent issue of New American Paintings (the MFA annual). Looks good!
Painter’s/Painting at Bad at Sports
Posted in Painting, tagged Bad at Sports, David Humphrey, Deborah Kass, Dike Blair, Holly Coulis, Kamrooz Aran, Painters, Painting Panel Discussion, Tom Sanford on May 12, 2010| 6 Comments »
Bad at Sports has posted the Painters/Painting panel discussion held at their behest last month in NYC. Participants include Tom Sanford, Kamrooz Aram, Holly Coulis, David Humphrey, Dike Blair and Deborah Kass.
And a few other links:
Following up the post on Robert Barnes new show at Corbett vs. Dempsey, here is a 2001 interview with Barnes discussing the good old days, specifically his contacts with Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Matta.
New Dana Schutz interview at Art Info.
Christian Viveros-Faune on Jules de Balincourt’s new work.
There’s a new-ish interview with Sangram Majumdar at the Jerusalem Studio School’s blog. There are a lot of interviews with SM around the artblogs but this one’s notable for having a lot of studio shots and discussion of materials and methods.
Ryan Mosley at Grand Arts
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Grand Arts, Kansas City MO, London, Painting, Ryan Mosley on May 6, 2010| 1 Comment »
British painter Ryan Mosley is an artist in residence at Grand Arts in Kansas City. There will be a open studio/welcome-to-KC event May 7, 2010, followed by an exhibit to be on view June 4-July 24, 2010. More Ryan Mosley.
Argue painting at AFC?
Posted in Painting, tagged amy sillman, Art, art fag city, death of painting, long live painting, paddy johnson, Painting, tom moody on May 3, 2010| 6 Comments »
In case you haven’t had enough “painting is dead” -related arguments lately, a rather large one has developed over at Art Fag City, regarding Amy Sillman’s recent show at Sikemma Jenkins.