Archive

2023

Artblog.net Turns Twenty

2022

Introducing Dissident Muse | Across and Within Closing | The Art-Shaped Hole | Across and Within at Storefront Art Projects | Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art, the book | A Painter Poetaster: On Florine Stettheimer | Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism | Milton Avery at the Wadsworth Atheneum | On AICA On Ukraine | Going Greco-Roman in Boston | Total Destruction The Only Solution | Secular Deracinated WASPism | On Boston's New Mandates | Picasso Blue Period at the AGO | Authority and Freedom

2021

Art After Liberalism, Part 5: The Postliberal Art World | Art After Liberalism, Part 4: Postliberal Cold War, United States Edition | Art After Liberalism, Part 3: Postliberal Cold War, Global Edition | Art After Liberalism, Part 2: A Brief Theory of Postliberalism | Art After Liberalism, Part 1: Terms | Kikuo Saito: Matter and Action | KinoSaito Opening Weekend | Crowdfunding My Rejected AICA Congress Paper | Titian Rendition | Ryders and the Storm | The Educated Eye | For Art To Be Possible | On Abolishing the Museums; Or, Imagine You're a White Woman | John Link, 1942-2021 | Review in the Key of S | Composing in the Key of S | NFTs: Now, Franklin's Take | Trash in Hyperspace: Markets, Institutions, and Artistic Freedom | Organizing Sensation | The Credo of Cadmus | The Sea Stacks of Scott Bennett | Modernism Against the Institutions: An interview by Elizabeth Johnson | A Bold Proposal for Hyperallergic | Time-Traveling Art Critics

2020

Proposal to AICA-USA for a Task Force on Censorship, Cancel Culture, and Iconoclasm | Too Smart for Art | The Woke Paradox | Flagellants in the Museum | Toxic Collectivism | Letter from the Third Realm | Context Cancellation | Half Step Half Fall | I Inspire Martin Herbert, Apparently | Why You Can’t Put On a Philip Guston Show | Art Teacher Zen Master | Circus Lights | No Rules Outside of Individuals: An Interview with .ART | Bureaucracy, Tyranny, and Woke Aesthetics | Women Take the Floor | Honor | On the AICA-USA Black Lives Matter Statement | Bill Scott: A Prolonged Moment | Matisse on Rules | How to Be an Artist: Step 1, Skip This Book | COVID and the Critics | Unto-itself-ness | The Virtual Critic: A Thought Experiment | New in the WDBA: Ann Walsh | Painting Edo | Instead of a Revolution | Critical Prejudices | Insensitive to Art and Its Contents | James Walsh: The Elemental | Progressive Preponderance: A Reply to Douglas McLennan

2019

Hollein Post Reactions | Some Context Regarding Max Hollein | On the End of Emma Sulkowicz's Art Career | N.C. Wyeth: New Animosities | Open letter to Massachusetts State Representative Dan Hunt [Explicit Lyrics] | Art Criticism Is Dead | Literally Watching Paint Dry | What kind of artist are you? The jury is out | Artists Draw Their Studios | Hyman Bloom at the MFA | The End of the Woke-Wealthy Truce | Non-Playable Criticism | Oil, Extra Salt | Hacking at the Twigs of Evil | Regarding Th.at in the Boston Globe | Further Adventures in Bad Salad Dressing | Regarding Th.at | Kokoschka at the Leopold | Tulips on the Solstice | Identity and Decline: Some Thoughts on the Schumacher Report on Visual Arts Journalism | How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist by Caroll Michels, Seventh Edition | Bourgeois Radicalism in the Art of Ashley Norwood Cooper | The Critical Edge | Cloud on a Mountain in the Boston Globe

2018

Cloud on a Mountain | Elisabeth Condon: Near and Distant Views | Oil Refinery | Ann Walsh's Mechanics of Color | Rockland Chronicle | Leonardo: Discoveries from Verocchio's Studio at Yale University Art Gallery | On the Objectivity of Taste | The Critic's Dilemma | The Thing About Hit Jobs Is That Sometimes You Get Hit Back | Fulbright | Back to Bascom Lodge | In Which Young Madeline Has a Question | Three from the Davis | Art in the Age of the Internet, and Chuck Webster | Artblog.net Turns 15 | Fra Angelico at the Gardner | Secret Gardens | Reviews Recovered | For the Love of Art Criticism | Six Reasons Why I Didn't Apply for Your Art Opportunity | Kingdom of Ice | This Week In Clembashing: David Pagel | Video of Comics and Poetry Panel | Beauty and Doubt | Handy Received Ideas | Inventur and Culture Hustlers | Bryan Christie: Heaven Painter, Hell Painter | Individualities Without a Mandate | Who's the Vulgarian Now? | Norwegian would: the efforts of Edvard Munch | Shooting the Wounded: An Evening With Franklin Einspruch

2017

On Modigliani at the Jewish Museum | Comics Poetry Panel at MICE | Why Should Art Critics Exist? | Bernard Chaet at Alpha Gallery | Dig that Delicious Line | Reordering the Rainbow | Save Free Speech From Lindy West | Petey Brown's Water Signs | A Tale of Two Georges | American Watercolor at the PMA | Chase at the MFA, and a Comics Poem | Guido Cagnacci at the Frick | Klimt at the Neue, and Fake News at the New York Times

2016

On Art Basel Miami Beach at The New Criterion | Modernism Is A Working Attitude: Walter Darby Bannard at artcritical | Walter Darby Bannard, 1934-2016 | UH-OH: Frances Stark at the MFA Boston | Sue Post: Weed/Garden | Cultural Marxists Are Actually Pomofascists | Dissociative Institutional Collapse | Why Sports Are Surging But the Arts Are Not | Works from the Golden Foundation | Morandi at CIMA | Drawing Shows at Harvard | New England Book Show Awards Best in Category to A Fox Appears | The Marxist Idea of Free Speech Is Ridiculous | Lawren Harris in The New Criterion | When The Art Is Of You: Stephen DiRado | Among the Cultural Authoritarians | Painting Tranquility in The New Criterion

2015

Leap Before You Look in The New Criterion | Golden Foundation Residency | Sorry, Artists: Gentrification Is Here To Stay | I'm in the New York Times Magazine | The Art World's Real Conservatives | Counterstrike In The Mayonnaise Wars | Is Cultural Appropriation Ever Wrong? | Democracy Is Killing Art | Hail the High Priestess: Kyle Staver and the Cult of Painting | Event Violating MassArt Non-Discrimination Policy To Be Held at MassArt | Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark | Somebody Wants Art Removed From A Smithsonian Exhibition, and It's Not the Catholic League | Cultural Libertarian Manifesto | Bascom Lodge | Boston Kimono Alarms Culture Crusaders (and A Note to Whom It Alarmed) | Aquinnah 2015 | Thomas Hart Benton at the PEM | Oops, I Guess I Just Raped Emma Sulkowicz | Boston Pride 2015 | Morning Window | Cultural Appropriation Is Culture | Vote for This Art World Patch Today | Roundup: Come for the Art, Stay for the Cardistry | A Conversation with Walter Darby Bannard | Roundup: The Ultimate of What a Painter Might Achieve | That Kehinde Wiley Review Is Neither Racist Nor Homophobic, It's Progressive | Pretty Raw, and Pretty Busy | Roundup: di Cosimo's Big Week | Art People: Learn Economics, I Beseech You | Snow, Globe | Snow Drawings Nos.1-6 | Roundup: The Countryside that Sprang From the Brush of the Artist | Live-Drawing the Blizzard of 2015 | When Artists Fear Their Audience | The Hooded Utilitarian's Cheap, Lazy Criticism of Charlie Hebdo | New Art: Half Wrapped

2014

Pork Bellies and Gold Bars | Roundup: As If Nothing Else Existed | Roundup: Smell the Roses | Roundup: Bursting, Glowing Light | Nikoletta at Rocco's | New Art: Oak Branch | Rothko's Harvard Murals | Roundup: The Visual and the Unspoken | New Writing: Calder and Illuminus | We Should Talk More Often | Golden QoR Colors | Aquinnah in August | A Red Light in Miami | New Publishing (Non-)Schedule | We Are Not In a Bubble (And Other Famous Last Words) | None More Black | Department of Skills: Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens | Lies About Libertarians | Why Norms Matter | Aquinnah 2014 | Unicycle Diaries | What I Did During My Summer Vacation | You Said It, Not Me | Susan Vecsey and Jim Walsh at Berry Campbell | Department of Skills: Salsa Rueda | Precariousness Is the Norm | Waiting to Faint | Department of Skills: Avner Eisenberg | The New Censors | Review of Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take | Personality and Impersonality | Painting Because Life Is Fragile | Every Day Without Fail | Less A Mirror, More A Window | I Should Believe the Buildings | Incantation of the Week | The Sound of Gates Crashing | H.R. Giger, 1940-2014 | Art's Usefulness | A Fiendish Trap, But They Had It Coming | Misery, Tuition, and Inequality | Positional Taste, Positional Politics | Has Art Reached Peak Goodwill? | Department of It Couldn't Hurt | The Moon Fell On Me Returns (Wounded) | Judith Schaechter Never Lies, Part 3 | Scooter Understands the Soul of a True Artist | The Walter Darby Bannard Archive Returns | Cochineal Not Recommended | Department of Skills: Grizzly Hidriago and Alien Ramirez | Just Say No | Art Materials of the Future | Life Among the Irredentists | Slow Art Day | That Shadowless Light | Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate | Savoir-Faire and Savoir-Vivre | It's Getting Clearer | Department of Skills: Karen X. Cheng | The Saddest Parade On Earth | My Word, Miss, What Talents You Have | The Day the Server Died | Running with Death, and Scissors | Department of Skills: Scott Young | Postmodernism's Nazi Problem | Harvesting the Fruits of Wonder | Mind the Gap: Content-Creators Versus the Toner-Heads | Department of Skills: Anthony Gatto | Time to Die a Little Inside | Judith Schaechter Never Lies, Part 2 | Department of Skills: Apollo Robbins | In Which the Noteworthy Are Duly Noted | Cotter Sings a Swan Song | Kimono | The Real Academy | Department of Skills: The Nicholas Brothers | Getting On With Painting | Go-Moku | The Problem In The Middle Is The Problem At The Top | On "9.5 Theses on Art and Class," Part II | Department of Skills: Paco de Lucia | Placed, Tonight | The Terms of Anarcho-Modernism | Painting Has Its Own Code of Honor | La Penseure | Department of Skills: Yann Frisch | Let's Get Provisional | Placed: Artist Statement | Destroy Me, I'm Art (If the Museum Says So) | Placed | Anarcho-Modernism | Larry Poons is the Honey Badger of Painting | Scenes from The Fire to Say | One Last Drawing | Winter Evening | In Which the Observant and Loyal Are Rewarded

2013

Leftovers for Christmas | Juggler in a Clearing | State Control | The Fire to Say | On "9.5 Theses on Art and Class," Part I | Have Some More Art | Here, Have Some Art | Gouache, That Was Fun | Anthony Caro, 1924-2013 | Contact Poi | Cargo Culture | Shutdown? Me Too | Oh My Gouache | Sometimes You Fight For Every Millimeter | Writing Away As Autumn Draws Near | Sencha | Disintermediation Manifesto, Part 3: Disintermediate Reputation | Heatiness | Disintermediation Manifesto, Part 2: Disintermediate Sales | Disintermediation Manifesto, Part 1: Disintermediate Education | Disintermediation Manifesto, Part 0: Introduction | Rebel and Train Yourself | Too Darn Hot | Hand to Hand | Enjoying Gay Head Isn't What It Sounds Like | Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine | Epic in Softcover | Quotes of the Week | In Praise of Hate Speech | An Open Thank-You Note | Ownership | Molly Norris Day | I'm Free To Do What I Want Any Old Time | Artblog.net Turns Ten | Art Is the Wrong Cave | He Knows Changes Aren't Permanent, But Change Is | In the Beginner's Mind There Are Many Possibilities | Standing Athwart History, Yelling Go | Worlds Apart | Soft Perimeter | Those Damn Intrinsic Field Subtractors | William Perehudoff, 1918-2013 | Hess Exhibition, Asylum Talk | Still Life Asks For A Kind Of Humility | Coot Deever, PhD | Drawing the Figure with Russell Tredell | The Annals of Art Bollocks: International Art English | A White, Blank Page | From Katie | The Trial of Henry Hair Mattress | Six Hard Truths For Ben Davis | An Anticipation of Participation | South Coast Today Coverage

2012

Basel or Bust (Other Options Are Also Being Considered) | End Note | The Sleep of the Just | Practice is Philosophy | The Annals of Art Bollocks: Julia Berkman at Frederic Snitzer Gallery | You Say "Abolish Public Arts Funding" Like It's a Bad Thing | The Pleasures of Fall | From Life: Natalia | We Must Also Be Good | Instinct | Franklin Einspruch: How Deep My Pleasure | Judith Schaechter Never Lies | The Economist Debates Arts Funding | Items of Interest on the Internet | All Aboard | How to Buy a Scanner | Red Box | Robert Hughes, 1938-2012 | Twice the Matisse | Roundup | From Lucy, July 9 | This Is Your World | Morris's Gang | First, the Good News | Flowers Under the Oaks | And Now, a Word From Spinning Disco Chicken | A Beautiful Day for a Funeral | Correctness | How Deep My Pleasure | Recovery Mode | This Is Why I Hate Jerry Saltz's Writing | Residency Report | International Artist Residency Panel | Starts | In Residence | Being Odd, Getting Even | A Great Mind in Twilight | Criticism: Why Bother | Watch Your Mouth | The Reappearing Nude | Alan J. Smith, 1931-2012 | Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012 | Kerry Smith at Low Tea | On Why Very Few People Can Tell The Difference Between Good And Bad Painting | On Aphorisms for Artists | Hammond Pond Lines | What's a Museum? | Dr. Sketchy's: Ludella Hahn | A Revel in Rome, Relived in Rotterdam | Review Panel Podcast | From the Model: Natalia | Demuth at the Armory | Ruben Ochoa in Art in America | Amsterdam | Renoir and the Force of Delicacy | Errors Versus Truths | Balthus: An S.O.S. for Painting | A Complicated Marriage | From the Model: Jen | Josette Urso | The Flight of the Squirrel | All Thunder of the One Thought | Seeing Art (After a Fashion) In New Ways | Monet in Cincinnati | Review Panel Next Friday | Things To Look At | Dr. Sketchy's with Marilyn Meow | 69°S.: The Shackleton Project | From This Morning: Natalia | Johann Zoffany in The New Criterion | A Trillion Sparrows | Brett Sokol on Bannard and Basel | Love in the Afternoon | Hallelujah Anyway | The End of the Underground | Bill Scott Review Online | Art is Everywhere | On Value | comicons.org | Something Is Listless in Denmark | Morris Graves Foundation Residency | Hirst and Game | Every Minute Could Have Been an Eternity of Happiness | Red Reviewed | We Accidentally All Your Civil Liberties | Jeffrey Carson Admiring a Portrait Bust | On the Gleason Rant | Never Produced to Order | Storm Large or Storm Home | There Are No Sidelines | Vendettas and Heavy Concepts | Bill Scott in Art in America | Comics-Conscience-Crisis | Academia, in Theory | Ceci N'est-ce Pas Une Taxe | Naturally Among the Greats | Originality Lives at the Crossroads

2011

The Wrong Politics for Art | From Katie and Other Excellent Iterations of Life | Your Work Is Deeply Repugnant To Us | On Certain Wits | Structural Weirdness and Stable Harmony: A.A. Rucci | Against the Droit de Suite | Taking Pulse at a Slower Pace | Julie Weiman | Meanwhile, in Miami | Seen With True Vision | Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 | Lo! A Titian | Please Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself

2010

So long | Greg Cook | Yokelism with your wallet out | Conceptualism for Sale: How the Art World Uses Low Standards for Fun and Profit | #class talk tomorrow | Jikijitsu | Great moments in philately | The tools are us | Not knowing is most intimate | Getting thoughts together roundup | 70 Million | Public Radio Kitchen interview | Pears redux | A cup of tea | Comics roundup | Dr. Sketchy's | Waxing explicit | Pears | Waiting for UPS roundup | On the town | About Pictures | Apples and Orange | There goes the afternoon | EAG nails it | The Endgame of Postmodernism | Friday Roundup, Off-to-work Monday edition | Getting involved | Bonus pre-travel roundup | I have no talent | Art Basel Miami Beach, 2009 | Recovering | Bannard on NBC Miami | Catalogs of inadequate art won't last long at these prices | Kenneth Noland, 1924-2010 | I've never quibbled if it was ribald | Beauty as an act of self-denial

2009

Happy New Year | October to November | Now let us praise The New Criterion | Vincent Price art promo | I labor under no illusions | The Art Writings of Darby Bannard | New in the WDBA: George Bethea | And then just coast | Excellent snow | Bunny alert | ABMB and Art Miami | A Kiss Before Flying | Walter Darby Bannard - Then and Now | Curb | The obvious, because no one else is stating it | Back to the land | Taking inspiration from spent gases | It's a blog, so I'm putting up a picture of my cat | July nudes | Standing Figure | Uhng | After Balthus | Nude figure with jQuery | Do the hustle | Beauty is better than a big idea | John Daido Loori, 1931-2009 | Comics roundup | Fall color | Penrose and Escher | Dottists, spottists, and bitumenists | The Paleolithic decorative hand axe market | Sensible people in action | Warm Third Sunday | Bloody Do-Gooder Roundup | John Sanchez: Recorded Eyesight | The fizzling future of arts journalism | That's one way of putting it | Friday roundup, Monday edition | Some results from the moku hanga workshop | I am very moved by one detail | International Children's Art Supply Drive | The neighbor's nasturtiums | Fergus, 1993-2009 | Plagens prolific | Bannard article rediscovered | Your life-span is only one moment long | ArtsJournal turns ten | Seek elsewhere | Richard Merkin, 1938-2009 | Items of note | Venetian Afterthoughts | Beck-off | We want to be taught to feel | Prendergast in Italy | On returning, I can't believe this world is still turning | The Talk That Walked | Enter the critic | Roundup | Paul Graham describes my brain | What the kids are saying | Beautiful like a Chardin | The new center of the art world | Power supply | Beware Canadia | Back and July forth | On the road again | How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, Sixth Edition, by Caroll Michels | Consider the crabapple | Who is this, and what have you done with Jerry Saltz? | New studio | Notes from the runaround | Essentially itself | Robert Colescott, 1925-2009 | New work | Library haul | Roundup | The wise man walks with his head bowed | Work | My Vik Muniz review, the gift that keeps on giving | Roundup | Art in the library | Yet another art writer calls for the destruction of my livelihood | The art of Ben Steele, war veteran | Roundup | Tales from the downturn | Gilbert Bouchard, 47 | Comics weekend | A bit of family business | Lilac Sunday | Ray Kurzweil | On Sickert | Quote du jour | If you know what's good for you | Practice | It's hack job time again in America | Spring in the Boston Common | Gilbert Bouchard missing | Good!ness | Bonnard Late Interiors at the Met | Kaji Aso | Criticism | Spring | In Defense of Eye Candy | Hernan Bas at the Brooklyn Museum | No category | New growth | Miami modernist report | Grad school | Crumb Genesis | Wrapping up for the week | Inbound #3 | More about art in Second Life | The Internet? You don't say | More FATE papers | FATE Talk | Sneak preview of slide from tomorrow's talk | Artists with PhDs: preliminary report | Matisse's lament | Whew | Danae | Effectiveness, not truth | Admin note | More shh | Shh | Ken Johnson backs me up | Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar | Art/Work by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber | Neither subjective nor objective | You killed my Jew | No Horse In Particular | Congratulations to The Artblog | A poverty of smartness | Yesterday from the model | Startups in 13 sentences | From the sketchbook | New work | To market | Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change | Shape humor | The magenta chronicles | Welcome back, Cotter | International Dunhuang Project and bonus Asian culture link | Happy birthday Charles Darwin | I'm digging for FIRE | Fairey arrested; supporters bleat in protest | The public speaks | AP goes after Fairey | Hard at work on the craft | The Bad Museum | Interview with an art baron | Art bollocks | Dina Vierny, 1919-2009 | Your moment of awesome | Oh, right, I used to do this a lot | Against the Culture Czar | Realist streak | January: Nude (K.G.) | Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009 | Reformulating the brows | Happy Hundredth to Clement Greenberg | An immodest proposal | Unsolicited advice | Change notes | Love Cures | New Year's Nude | Free-floating molecules in the vast vacuum of art | Whilst on hiatus | Overheard at the ICA

2008

See you in 2009 | Mather attacks | Morandi at the Met | First good snow of the year | A second tulip mania | Rouault at Boston College | Quote du jour | Sketches after Rouault | New work from WDB | Art is long, the science is dismal | Taking the week off to paint | The importance of genius | Home | Beautiful days in America, part three | Beautiful days in America, part two | Beautiful days in America, part one | Art | Roundup | Fundamentalism | Paint Factory | Gloucester | Quote roundup | Truro | Lookers and readers | Constant reviews considered harmful | Eastern Standard | Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection | Badlands | Homer and Sargent at the Clark | Like Breath on Glass | James and Ann Walsh | Forman Collection | Op-Art Revisited | Germaine, dear | Zap! Pow! Bam! | Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt: The Absent City | Richard Prince: Spiritual America | Peter Hide | Works of a Renaissance Master: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer | Face the Nation | Critic with a sky-high ego | Heads up | Mitchel Smith at Common Sense | Nomadic RV lifestyle inspires artist's work, details at 11 | TIOWWCA coverage | Feeling and sentiment | Big day | Our trip to date | Hard to draw | For the record | Central coast and North Bay | Our trip so far | A moving experience | Maillol's Miniatures at the Norton Simon | Marcel Duchamp Redux at the Norton Simon | Statement for The Importance of What We Care About | Strange bedfellows | Criticism and its future roundup | I Don't Have Time For Noncontroversial Art Exhibits | All over the map | Surprise Roundup | Latest | Love Cures update | Pretty Lady vastly improves the Artblog.net t-shirt | Beauty | Phalaenopsis and African violet | Scenes from a life online | Painting day | Go See Updates | New in the library: Kameda Bōsai | Miami artist harassed by cops | I-70: Epilogue: I-15 | The price of alternatives | Clouds are very, very free | Abbeville Press coupon | Aegean Center news | A day without art (Tuesday in Pasadena) | Quotes du jour | Utah | Juggling Friday | Ron Paul on arts funding | So what are you waiting for? | Breaking News: Greenberg cited without demonization | Two days' hard geeking | Seamus Heffernan | Lost in the arranging | Walking back to the car twenty pounds heavier | The importance of what we care about | John Link at WMU | Roundup | Rauschenberg dissenters | New modernism | Friday roundup, Monday edition | Gerber daisies | Chinese art shenanigans | Nihilism as mannerism | Happy birthday | Geometry Friday | Masterpieces | Fun with animated gifs | Abbeville Art Atlas giveaway | Art plus research equals... something | Roundup | How you may lose all the rights to every piece of art you have ever created | Colorado | All you need is bodily fluids and an insane desire for attention | Prior art | Being overrated by the art world is priceless, for everything else there's MasterCard | Wings | It continues | To Do List, post-Courbet show | That formal vs. concpetual thing | Neuroaesthetics and cupcake frosting | Jasper Johns: Gray | Sorry for the silence | Fish on decon | Armory notables | Armory week preview | Art blogger panel discussion | This atrocity has been brought to you by the contemporary art establishment | The most important thing is what you see with your eye | Feel like makin' love | 1000 True Fans | Roundup | The non-crisis in art criticism | Christine Nguyen at Michael Kohn | New work | Armory roundup | Olitski at Knoedler | Tom Wesselmann at Forum | Whitney 'n' Things | Kansas | The geekery worsens | Gary Gygax | Good times with public art | Roundup | Puryear at MoMA | Lin Yutang | Art and the Internet | Missouri | Oh, right, the blog | Illinois | Roundup | The market for serious work | Blossoms and fog | New in the WDBA | Good problems | Reference | Roundup, now with added value | Robert Irwin at MCASD | Freud etchings at MoMA | In Another Light | Roundup | The art of the end run | The example of method | Conversation | Useful philosophy | Middlemen | Roundup | Coming soon | Roundup | Whoopsie | Pre-Raphaelites at Delaware Art Museum

2007

Hypothetically | Special holiday report: Holland Cotter and the call of the herd | Holiday | Friday roundup, Monday edition | John Sloan | Exev | The aesthetic World's Fair of our time | Roundup | Degrees of illustration | Reincarnation | Objectivity | Miami artworlders channeling Artblog.net | Roundup | Ancient, universal and persistent | Caveat venditor | Happy Thanksgiving | Friday Roundup, Saturday Edition | On the Block | Writers Who Paint | Elisabeth Condon | I forget what eight was for | Roundup | Who decides | Andy Warhol Silver Factory | Degrees of art | Freebies | Roundup | Ohio | It's always something | Roundup | Birth of the Cool | Joseph Grigely | New comment form | Roundup | Department of Took You Long Enough | Taste, Quality, and the Panjective World | Good news, bad news | The view | Roundup | Journals, diversions, quicksand | WDBA milestone | Roundup | The Inner Economist leaves the museum | West Virginia | Skill | Separating art and state | Roundup | Shopping on a budget | The Inner Economist goes to the museum | Art and intelligence, or lack thereof | Model | Joseph Conway | Roundup | Kent Williams, second draft | Kent Williams, second draft | Kent Williams | Maryland | Roundup | Delahaye | Tim Hawkinson | New: Jersey | Roundup | Nattering nabobs of... wait, that was someone else | I put today's post | Fire | Hearsay | Roundup | Weston | Oudry | Design | Roundup | Discipline | Down Doheny way roundup | I live | Film | New York shows | Roundup | Notable in comics | Why the art world is a disaster | Modernism | Super Summer Sabbatical | Sasanian clearance | Greetings, Southern Californians | New work | Roundup | Goosebumps | When it comes to this art stuff your species is completely nuts | LOLart | Admittedly rather silly roundup | Kota Ezawa at WCMA | Great moments in unintentional art criticism | Signs of Spring in Boston | Roundup | North Adams miscellany | Bannard at Jacobson Howard | Questions for Mark Golden | Roundup | Hopper people | Hopper architecture | Hopper watercolors | New in the WDBA | Roundup | It's nice to be missed | Drug Store | Hopper's Drug Store - prelude | 1000 | Roundup | New at WDBA | Hitched | Roundup | Sasanian dish | Fried on Bannard | Vermont | Wee roundup | Digital tools | I assume you naturally stop recalling Beach Boys songs after a while | Roundup | George Bethea | Tiger | Whilst I mend | Uck | Roundup | Three hermits | Della Robbia: Virgin and child with lilies | Audience | New in the WDB Archive | We interrupt this roundup | The last thing I'm ever going to write about the Miami Art Museum | Design and redesign | Roundup | Living movement | Ten Thousand Li up the Yangtze | Monte Carlo seen from Roquebrune | Five paintings that really should be movies | Road | Vacuum | Roundup | Snow in Boston | Multiple Strategies at Busch-Reisinger | A Voice Crying in the Wilderness | Roundup | Big Bang! at the DeCordova | Boston's first Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Burlesque Life Drawing Class | Thus it ever was | New work - help | Roundup | Velazquez - Don Sebastian de Morra | Spanish painting at el Gugg | CAA Conference 2007: Its own kind of misery | Ars longa, roundup brevis | An open letter to Jake Chapman | Donatello | Loaded for bear | Jules Olitski, 1922-2007 | Roundup | The conclusion to be drawn | Discontent considered | Discontent roundup | An announcement, and some new work | Roundup | Nielsen Gallery | Jumpy Treehugger | Angelo del Maino - Massacre of the Innocents | Truncated travel roundup | The Two English Friends | Backwash | Anthony Falcetta at Rotenberg | New work | Roundup | Degas - Pagans and Degas's Father | Now even more on the Internet | Art and politics | New art | The art world must be resting roundup | The picture of the world | 'Tis the hiring season | From a protracted series of scenes from art history I wish I had witnessed

2006

Roundup | I don't feel good | Pent-up Roundup | Matisse, The Pont Saint-Michel | Eyes of living creatures | George Tooker | Paul Signac | Artblog.net | The Art Basel/Miami Beach satellite event you would have known about if you were truly an insider | Basel | AB/MB death march | Friday Roundup, Monday Edition | Circa six hours ago at the ICA | Welliver prints | Missouri Boy | Sensorium | Maine Print Project | The roundup of the turkey | American ABC | We interrupt this roundup | Art, money, politics | Art is too popular | Jades at WAM | Thumping Roundup | Domains of Wonder | Teaser | Mi Puerto Rico at WAM | BBT on Dorsch show | Roundup, including an item to go 'round your person | Advertising: An apology | New content at WDBA | Boo! | Louise Bourgeois at WAM | Roundup | Beyond Basketry at the MFA | Providence Poster Art | Sick Day Monday post | Five Posts or Bust Roundup | Artblog.net.admin++; | Cecily Brown at the MFA | Razzle Dazzle at RISD Museum | In case you missed it | Exhibition weekend roundup | Kathe Kollwitz at RISD | Understanding the Master, now with images | Understanding the Master | Roundup | Greetings Ocean Drive readers | Homework | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times | Roundup | Art for our sake | Somebody think of the children | The Key to modern art | Roundup | Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique | Scott McCloud at MIT | In the Globe | Roundup | New art | The Artblog.net Guide to Shooting Totally Adequate Digital Images of Your Work | 9/11 | Surprise roundup | Roundup | This just in | Cultivating Virtue: China | 謝謝! | New art | Roundup | Somerville Open | WDBA would be a good name for a radio station | Art Anatomy | New art | Roundup | Good, it's not just me | Crushed | Begging off | PSiNE - Women and flowers | I give up roundup | Feeling that New Times love | Painting Summer - Alex Katz considered harmful | Body Worlds 2 at the Museum of Science | Settling into Boston | Roundup | Peony | Cultivating Virtue: Japan | Domestic adventures | Cultivating Virtue | Ovalup | Perfect Example | Paul Graham on Leonardo | In which real life makes its presence felt | More spooky stuff | Roundup | The whole of painting | Phoning in, with a message to the Cult of the Open Mind | Museums below the radar | I got nothin' for you today | Roundup | Nominally Figured | My first silkscreen print | MIT is going to save art from what, exactly? | Americans in Paris wrap-up | Roundup | Cassatt, Beaux | I have heard of these 'holidays' of which you speak | Slightly screwball roundup | The Squirrel Mother | Ellen Day Hale | First thoughts on Americans in Paris | When bloggers collide | Roundup | Art capital-T Theory blogs | Summer | From the Department of Throwing Stuff Against the Wall and Seeing If It Sticks | Solidarity Monday | Roundup | A fable | Shows at MIT List | On Samuel Keller's leaving Art Basel | A.L.I.E.E.E.N. | Roundup, no chaser | Modern Kicks butt | On Stage in Osaka and Tradition and Transformation at the MFA | Laura McPhee at the MFA | Degas to Picasso at the MFA | The problem with standards | Friday roundup, Thursday edition | Jennifer Amadeo-Holl at Judi Rotenberg | Stolen | Slightly lazy long-weekend roundup | American Watercolors and Pastels at the Fogg | New RISD mission statement | Art market analysis from the Ming Dynasty | Jeffrey Bishop at OHT | Dear Miami Art Guide | Roundup | Generous law | How to Feed a Starving Artist | The Brandeis situation | Scheherazade | Friday Post, Saturday Edition | And with that | You won't have Einspruch to kick you around anymore, because, Miami, this is my last press conference | The I Should Be Packing Roundup | If the emperor is naked, where does he put that corpulent wallet of his? 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2005

notes to self | waitasec | taichung diary | if you come to taiwan | go see art changes | treasures | vincent van gogh: the drawings | on your mark, get set, get out of town | balldroppings | pictures | i meet the government | welcome to taiwan | technical issues | i acquire art supplies and a chinese name | open letter to the miami performing arts center | keeping up with the times | landed | outta here | trüe mästers | today's blog post has been brought to you by my mortgage lender | basel wrap-up | must not make nada in spanish joke | casa lin, pulse, cars and fish | foretaste | ab/mb presentation | do i mean it | soda show | antitinerary | itinerary | real painting | boogly boogly oogly | hans memling at the frick | coming soon | can i quote you on that? | go see art 3.0 beta | good question | the smile of the buddha | sean scully interview | the greenhouse effect | bas at snitzer, rayne at bruk, rodriguez at castillo | welcome wsj readers | artblog.net phone home | the quotidian considered | art anatomy | watch a marble sculpture form | ab/mb, really | greetings from fubartown | disempowered | the fun never stops | he says that he has a net worth of zero | withdrawal of the body | let's try to get our heads around this new media thing | 非常感謝 | comics roundup | technical question | providence | post-travel mayhem | on the road | the difference between life and lifestyle | art fair death match | the sholis files, continued | anatomy | right under the sun wrap-up | henri manguin | montreal, a preamble | one-liners on art | montreal report | montreal | critical art writing | rene barge | do it yourself | faced with the option | new dorsch site | that meeting | raffle/fundraiser at ambrosino | we have not met the enemy, and he is us | that government thing again | for your consideration | the starting gun fires | angela chang to speak tonight at miamintelligence | they missed a golden opportunity to call them 'de-cons' | the herald's art coverage | more katrina | blog for relief day | camille paglia | touched by his noodly appendage | katrina images | katrina update | did you know that artnews magazine ranks don and mera rubell among the world's top 200 art collectors? | dust to dust | didn't know danto | such a lonely word | shaking the uglies | true pluralism found in texas; discovery of jackalope expected soon | fine art | abstract perception: three views | that mountaintop must have a nice view | announcements | danto abuses beauty | robert hughes | learning curve | it's official - i hate css | important matters | file under: awwww | goodbye sister pomo | why i am not a postmodernist | money money makin' | the sound of alternative journalism | natural art criticism | constantino brumidi | questions | let's look at this abstract expressionistly | a country called art | monitor piece on cuban art | new image gallery | critical miami reviews mac | rss feed fixed | emerging | tyler's tear | total eclipse of the art | cia support of abex? | make $$$ emulating duchamp | richard serra | tuning the well-oiled machine that is the artblog.net content management system | right of first refusal | slashdot tackles art | regionalism | comments back up | how it plays | new art | back | changes | olitski capsule review | some art news you probably didn't catch | new art | neomodernism | ralph provisero kicks butt in chicago | picked up by the week | from last weekend at esperanto | help out annie wharton | this art school ain't big enough for the two of us | go see art relaunches | if i code my little heart out today | roundup | maitenance outage | wheeling and dealing | zombie joseph beuys | dorsch gallery garage sale | triffisk | must - not - stroke - chin | identity of relative and absolute | roundup | modern kicks is my friend | the story of lucian freud | choosing cultures | roundup | count me in | cash in now, honey, cash in now | hypothesis | this past weekend | ticking it off | artblog.net named best local website by new times | iconoduel shoots, scores | the stare | critical miami | routine | revenue model | market correction | guarda at tachmes, salter at ambrosino | abstraction in miami | ways of being in the world | two lives | anne chu | gaijin calligraphy | filthy lucre | spring break | i was up late | river | redlining on the poseur meter | classical component | criticism lives and dies at same time | you cannot defeat my linking style | my combined review of exhibitions this past weekend at the world arts building, filtro, ingalls, kevin bruk, and snitzer, and this is pretty much all i'm going to write about them | delehanty to step down | running out of frenchmen to flog | report from st. petersberg | universities bleeding intellectuals | nothing to see here, keep moving | site redesign (not this one) | prizes | my real feelings about photography | frances trombly at leonard tachmes | danto's inferno | the market has spoken | thanks | escape from new york | a broken market | 500 | in miami we have a word for this | final ludicrous monument | karma | massengale, reedy, and barge at dorsch | postcriticism | new miami artblogs | abmb apparently stomping all over the rest of the art world | mourning | new essay at newcrit | miro books at art and culture center | thai fruit and vegetable carving | proficiency and pathology | jules olitski at the goldman warehouse | robert rauschenberg at mam | roundup gets put out to pasture | pushing the oxymoronic component of 'reality television' to new heights of oxymoronity | josefina posch at liquid blue | christina lei rodriguez at rocket projects | something only an art historian could get confused about | roundup | copyrights | money issues | book review: the undressed art | roundup | new articles, new media | tsunami fundraiser auction at dorsch | images from upaya | ci vediamo | a no-go for antonio gattorno | tea is a work of art | roundup | shows at boca museum | leonardo's studio | images from space | guidelines | comments | the last friday roundup, perhaps | beyond geometry | return of lascaux | research | cset | roundup | reconstructionism | the self-criticism of self-criticism | palmbeach3 | special offer | roundup | turning point | ware, bethea, weinacht at dorsch | scalise and ware at dorsch | art miami | substance | a busy morning at the roundup newsdesk | this just in - painting nixed | problem | will eisner, 1917 - 2005 | lacma blocking art blogs | how the phd in art history changed my life - when I blew it off

2004

roundup | an open letter to jacin giordano | robert thiele | blues for moca | pac-mondrian | roundup | artblog.net has declared this area a no-sour-grapes zone | blankism | unorganized thoughts from boston | do-it-yourself roundup | new art | thinking about thinking and not thinking (or, my dinner with j.t.) | thinking and not thinking | fabian marcaccio at mam | roundup | the sholis files | it's enough to drive you to drink | g2 gallery | missed it | nada chance | rubell collection, camera obscura, omniart | lummus park, lucid | thanks for the vernissage - my neck has been kind of stiff lately | dorsch gallery, edge zones | wake | new digs for basel | roundup | de ida y vuelta | plans for basel | drawing project | roundup | muniz at tachmes and smoke, oh my | ambrosino continued | annie wharton | roundup | shambhala sun covering art | met to acquire duccio | critical bifurcation | roundup | a second term - for artsfeed | kerry, america lose | ohio gozaimasu | artblog.net recommends | margulies responds | roundup | interesting things in the new times | reader feedback needed | dying, but everywhere | new new painters | roundup, contrition edition | the monkey agendas | grrr | catapult me from the phoniness of this world | when the party comes back to bite your butt | roundup | the four seasons | derrida | your chance to interview charles saatchi | after the show | roundup | massive links update and its implications | catalogue for upcoming show | i'm official | the opposite of criticism | roundup | artblog.net/publications launch | after the art magazines | salmon talks about public art | jac leirner | art blog reader survey and a heads-up on artblog.net 2.0, as it were | roundup | nyfa piece | bogus catch-up post | roundup | the mystical and the managerial are secretly in cahoots | progress, of a kind | question | elisa turner recuperating | roundup | new art | the madness continues | picasso's witticisms | proportion and reasonableness | we interrupt this broadcast | mad september | life imitates satire at tate britain | e-prime art criticism | roundup | organization for the artist | elisa turner seriously injured | conflicts | drawing in company | roundup | peter bagge goes after the art world with a pair of nunchucks | design district openings | he thinks you are a genius | elgin marbles | roundup | much to-do about a calendar accident | realpolitik at the bmfa | art fair death match | art values against fashion values | roundup | flipped | the rape of the masters | picasso's suite 347 at the bass | crucial, earth-shaking news | piri's prediction | roundup | the birthday deal | the zen of creativity | mayor goes hardball on museum park | our prize | roundup | there are no shortcuts to creativity | collapsed | new art | george bethea, reloaded | roundup | margulies versus the expand-o-mam | unix morality applied to art | robin griffiths | the eye cringes and the heart sinks | roundup | fisking with class | go see art goes to back burner | alesh | purely an aesthetic issue | artist enhancement grants | friday press roundup | the upcoming week | a fisking observed | the shock of the newer | jeffrey carson and the summer in greece | sincerity | panel report | the performing art center and the expand-o-mam | i have been picked up | kokoschka cried at the feet of st. christopher | tanatalizing possibilities | write your editor | the juxtaposition did not escape me | sliding gracefully down the slippery slope of hope | the preservation of the world | new arts writers panel discussion | big art spread | what cinque said | environmentalism sidenote | juggling sidenote | discarded paragraph from upcoming snitzer review | convince me to care | shrub's art | the royal ontario museum responds; 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2003

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