Two Coats of Paint

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Sharon L. Butler

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Quicktime: Fast, Casual Painting
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Douglas Witmer's Simplicity
David Humphrey @ Fredericks & Freiser
Katharina Grosse on Canvas
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Rethinking Howard Hodgkin
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Robert Storr on Rick Briggs
Carolanna Parlato @ Elizabeth Harris
Fred Valentine @ Schema Projects
Color Matters @ The Painting Center
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Mariam Aziza Stephan in Cairo
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EJ Hauser at Regina Rex
Painting in Greensboro
Sense & Sensibility @ Lennon Weinberg
Robert Bordo in "Greater New York"
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Albert Oehlen's Genius
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The Painter of Modern Life
Craig Taylor @ CB1 Gallery
On Kawara: Carpe Diem
Paintings @ VOLTA
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Irving Petlin @ Kent Fine Art
Michael Voss: Beyond the Absolute
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The Strategic Now: Contemporary Painting @ MoMA
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The Casualist Tendency
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Jane Kent @ Pocket Utopia
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Michael Krebber: Interview
Ryan McLaughlin: Painting is Flat
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Mira Schor: Resonances & Influences
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Fred Valentine at Sometimes
The Portrait Tradition
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Thin & Thick: Mario Naves & Brett Baker
Kathryn Myers: India Studies
Brian Dupont: Studio Visit
Painting at the Art Fairs
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Escape from the Banal... Toward the Ideal
Love of Painting
4 Who Paint
Raoul de Keyser (1930 - 2012)
Painting in Toronto
Nathan Lewis: Reading the Ruins
Mark Dagley @ Minus Space
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Ellsworth Kelly: Slience in the Studio
Bad Painting Revisited
Edvard Munch's Damaged Retina
Painting: Retromodernism?
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MsBehavior
Painting in Nashville
Jules Olitski's Revelation
Whitney Biennial: Painting Strategies
Gordon Moore: Illusive Reality
Adolph Gottlieb: End of the Underground
Geometric Abstraction: Masked & Loose
Mel Bochner's Thesaurus Paintings
Claude Viallat
Elizabeth Gilfilen: Pugilist painter
Tatiana Berg & Sarah Faux
Susan Rothenberg: Disparate Images
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Painters as Storytellers
Jarrett Min Davis: Guts and Glory?
Craig Taylor: Reviving Pentimenti
Eva Struble: At Home Amid the Ruins
Merlin James: Secret World
Mythological creature: Susan Bee
Chris Martin's Bigness
The New Casualists
Talking Walls
Erik Saxon
Jimbo Blachly Small Pictures
Elisabeth Condon
Rochelle Feinstein: Painting isn't enough...
Elizabeth Murray at Pace
Howard Hodgkin in San Diego
Thomas Berding
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George Condo's Schtick
Alan Uglow (1941 - 2011)
Deborah Brown, A Bushwick Painter
Paintings of a certain size (and depth)
Unadventurous painting in NYC?
Unrelenting Analysis Grips Art World
2010: The girls Are All Right
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Inside Pat Steir's painting
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Somerset Maugham's theatrical paintings
Micro-mark making
Charlotte Park
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Anselm Keifer's factory
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