An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Contributed by Kathryn Myers / Having retired after 40 years of teaching in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut, I set out in my camper van in late December on the first of what I hope will be a series of annual winter road trips. On this inaugural journey, I decided to avoid larger cities and major highways, heading first to Arizona and California and then taking a month to meander home along the south and east coasts.
Contributed by Kathryn Myers / As an artist and longtime collector and curator of India’s unique and dazzling Mithila art form, I was deeply moved by an inspired new film, Sama in the Forest, which enlivens and re-contextualizes an ancient folktale while offering a privileged glimpse into the process of creation in Mithila art. Distinguished by its exquisite network of complex lines rendered in ink with shapes of brilliant color, Mithila is…
Contributed by Shubha Sunder / At seven o�clock Ramesh turns off the sewing machine, slings his leather bag over his shoulder, and says his customary good-bye […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Gouache, an expensive opaque watercolor-like paint, has been around for millennia. It dries fast, yields a sublime matte finish, and […]
