I went to see Van Gogh in America today with my sister Betsy. Vincent’s family encourages everyone to take selfies with his art, so here goes nothing. More about my experience at Vincent John Doe. It was overwhelming, the amount of great and iconic work we saw in this collection. […]
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 12/4
Perhaps I’m just online more, but it feels like the internet has been increasingly active the past few weeks. Christine McVie passed. Kanye West continues his anti-semitic and anti-Black rampage. Highlights: Hibernation and colonization, Railroad Workers United, killer robots, Twitter, ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘Queen Sugar,’ Keke Palmer and Angela Bassett, disappearing whales, […]
David Zwirner Lands Right to Exclusively Represent Gerhard Richter
German painter Gerhard Richter, a giant in the worlds of both Photorealism and abstraction, is leaving Marian Goodman, his gallery of thirty-seven years, for David Zwirner. The ninety-year-old artist will have his first show with the globe-spanning megagallery at its New York flagship in March 2023. Zwirner has multiple galleries […]
Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris
In Paris last month I did some sketching at one of my favorite spots, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens. This is a little video preview of me sketching. The full 10-minute video sharing the process of creating these two sketches is a free bonus course available to my […]
Gurney Journey: Boatyard
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You’ll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. Contact You can write me at: James Gurney PO […]
Orchidelirium. Colonialism through the lens of botany – We Make Money Not Art
Very little is known about Emilie Rosalie Saal. She was born in Estonia, studied in Russia and lived from 1899 until 1920 in Indonesia with her husband Andres Saal who was the head of the military cartography department of the Dutch colonial army. At the end of Andres’ mission in […]
Penske Media Acquires Artforum – Artforum International
December 7, 2022, New York, NY: Today, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced the acquisition of Artforum International Magazine, a leading voice in the contemporary art world. Artforum will join PMC’s constellation of brands as it celebrates its 60th anniversary year. Since its founding in 1962, Artforum has been at the vanguard of contemporary art criticism, and throughout its history has remained the voice of record for […]
Inspiration Close at Hand – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road
Inspiration Close at Hand Perspectives from The Artist’s Road Claude Monet in His Gardens at Giverny As many plein air events resume and artists are able to spread their wings to paint new landscapes, we have circumstances that are are still keeping us working close to home. But staying […]
Exhibition on Medieval Towns in Magdeburg
The new exhibition of the Cultural History Museum is titled ‘Faszination Stadt – The Allure of Cities,’ and is dedicated to the network of medieval towns following Magdeburg law. The topic is broadly framed, starting with city development in antiquity – but then it focuses on the development and spread […]
The Age of Social Media is Ending
For any artist who is active on the internet and/or social media and/or thinks they ought to be, I have a recommendation for an article which I think is a “must read”. The Age of Social Media Is Ending is by Ian Bogost and it’s the first article that I’ve read which makes […]