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George Tooker, RIP

Posted in Painting, tagged Art, george tooker, obituary, Painting, RIP on March 30, 2011| 1 Comment »

George Tooker died last Sunday. Read the NYT obituary here.

Narrative Figuration in Cincinnati

Posted in Painting on March 23, 2011| 5 Comments »

Narrative Figuration, opening March 25, includes the work of five Cincinnati-area painters: Robert Anderson, Daniel O’Connor (and here), Tim Parsley, Emil Robinson and Tina Tammaro. Curated by Daniel Brown. More info here.

Shown above: Emil Robinson, Man With Storage, oil on canvas, 60 x 50″, 2011.

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Vivian Maier

Posted in Not Painting on March 21, 2011| 1 Comment »

Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer at the Chicago Cultural Center until April 3, 2011. More Vivian Maier. (more…)

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James Elkins on the most beautiful painting in the world

Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art at Huffington Post, Giovanni Bellini, James Elkins, Painting on March 18, 2011| 7 Comments »

Over at Huffington Post, James Elkins writes about his pick for most beautiful painting in the world. There’s a moral to story, the typical Elkins anti-Aesop’s moral that comes in the form of a question, about the responsibility of scholarship. I’m sure that’s interesting to all of us, though it’s frankly hard to do anything other than just drool over the plentiful detail images accompanying the essay.

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