American Society of Contemporary Artists

More food for thought from the Winkleman forum.

A Seismic Shift

Photography, they said, would kill painting

review in The Guardian

The Painting of Modern Life is at the Hayward Gallery, London, from Thursday until December 30. Details: 0871 663 251

great article here.

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International / Middle East

With Fixtures of War as Their Canvas, Muralists Add Beauty to Baghdad

By STEPHEN FARRELL

Published: August 11, 2007

The city of Baghdad has hired two dozen artists to paint murals upon the miles of vast concrete blast walls that now snake along roads, rivers and sidewalks throughout the city.

The launch of Ebayaday, where art is sold online, cannot replace the supremacy of real things in real time and space. So says Ana Finel Honigman as she reveals what we long suspected. jpegs don’t tell the whole story. Like the slide held to the light it’s a poor way to experience a painting.
Check out the story here.