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Painting Today

Painting Today, PhaidonPainting Today
Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press, $75, 448 pages, hardcover

Every painting student within the last 40 years has been told painting is dead.  But we continue to surround ourselves with paintings, to visit museums and galleries, and to read books filled with images of paintings.  And the market still values paintings — Yue Minjun’s Execution, painted in 1985 and originally sold for $5,000 is now worth almost $6 million.

Author Tony Godfrey picks up on Art Today’s tradition, of using the prestige and magic of print, to effectively create a timeless capsule of paintings from the last forty years. His collection of paintings, arranged by theme, act as an introduction to the major movements in contemporary painting.

Check out SWOON video interview on Gestalten.tv

New York based artist SWOON is featured in a video for Gestalten.tv, a video podcast section of Gestalten design publishing company, and is best known for elaborate wheat pasted cut-out depictions of everyday street scenes she leaves covering New York City that decay and interact with the world around them for a constantly changing display of art.

Scion presents: “Infinity”

Statrting Saturday, October 10th at 7PM and running until November 7th the Scion Installation LA will hold an opening reception for the show entitled “Infinity”. The exhibition will feature contributions from artists such as Butt Johnson, Noah Davis, and Hilary Pecis and will “explore both the vastness of the infinite and the limitations of the infinite.”