Good news – yesterday, the tumblr staff named us to the editorship for the Art Tag. What does this mean? It means we now have the ability to highlight and promote art from across the worldwide tumblr community. We’re honored…
Do our brains naturally prefer literal photographs over abstract art? Does that set up a fight for our attention? As we saw with the Munch blog post last week, painters have been in conversation with photography since the invention of…
Sue Prideaux, author of Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, wrote a feature article on the artist for the summer edition of Tate Etc. magazine to accompany the Tate Modern’s exhibition,“Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye.” Prideaux writes about how Munch was affected…
Not all experiences of looking are the same. LACMA gallery attendant (and artist/writer) Hylan Booker reminded me of this in his recent Unframed blog post about the museum’s Unveiling Femininity in Indian Painting and Photography exhibit. Booker travels back in time to imagine what…
Over on our tumblr page, we’ve been featuring spooky art to celebrate Halloween. Tumblr’s staff selected our post showcasing designer Magnus Gjoen’s skulls to feature on the tumblr radar – check out one of the skulls below, and head over…
Ben Meyer’s review of British artist Jeremy Deller’s mid-carrer show at the University of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art emphasizes that the cross-cultural experience needs to be absorbed and enjoyed slowly. We agree. It takes time to step into other times and places. Many…
Some works of art seem to inherently invite a slower, more involved viewing experience. New American Painting contributor Brian Fee would agree in regards to Shara Hughes’ richly colored paintings currently exhibited at the American Contemporary in New York. In his review of her…