“Exhibition note: On ‘The Provincetown Printmakers’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” has gone live at The New Criterion and will appear shortly in the September print edition. Reach out to me if you need access.
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During the week of September 11 we will begin an Asynchronous Studio Book Club reading of Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman by Michael Schreyach. Obtain your copy soon.
Preorders are available for Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art by Walter Darby Bannard. More information is available at the site for the book.
Lovely works, but of course trivial, as they are apolitical and challenge nothing. Formal values, yes, but art has moved past that--so far past it that it has become something else, and frankly, the least it could do is find another name for itself that is both more fitting and more honest.