Front Cover: Aaron Parazette, Double Fade (detail), 2003
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
40 x 36 inches
Courtesy Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio

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Dumb Painting

The End of Representation

- Frances Colpitt -

"Painting is dead" was a theory, not a fact.

Searchers

- Aaron Parazette -

Where is painting today? In the last ten years, there has been a dramatic increase in the production of paintings, as well as...

The Death of
Painting
and
The Writing of
Painting's
Post-Crisis,
Post-Critique Future

- Christopher Miles -

The "death" or "end" of painting was, in fact, a crisis that presented itself in the form of a discourse. By the time...

from there to here

Remembrances of a Monochrome Painter

- James Hayward -

Some weeks ago, my friend Frances Colpitt asked me to write a piece for ARTL!ES. I agreed, without thinking, and then began...

A Conversation on Painting

- Paola Morsiani -

Painting seems to be in a different place every six months. I'm interested in trying to understand where you all are in your own...

Premeditated Chaos

- Dan Cameron -

Curators in my position are sometimes asked why we invariably consent to get involved with grass-roots projects...

Organizing Artists

in a Post-Utopian World

- Noah Simblist -

What does it mean for artists to organize? It's the kind of thought that would give Karl Rove the shivers. For many, the idea...

Marfa

- James Bae -

Before he died, I was going to ask my friend Julian if he wanted to meet in New York for Wilhelm Sasnal's opening...