What Is Painting?
Posted by Sarah
 Succulent Eggplants (synthetic polymer
paint on canvas, 74 3/4 x 96 1/2) by Beatriz Milhazes
Gift of Agnes
Gund and Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund. © 2007 Beatriz MilhazesIf artist Julian Bell's answers in What Is Painting?: Representation and Modern Art (Thames and Hudson, 1999) don't satisfy your itch for painterly contemplation, perhaps the offerings at MoMA's current exhibitition What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection (July 7–September 17, 2007) will do the trick. Here's the word on the show:
It presents a selection of artworks
made since approximately 1965, including a number of recent
acquisitions and many works displayed for the first time since the
Museum's reopening. A variety of responses to the question "What is
painting?" are proposed in loose chronological sequence, ranging from
ironic to sincere; from figurative to abstract; and from an embrace and
creative reimagining of painting's possibilities to a critical
engagement with its limits.
Read a gamey interview with John Baldessari (whose painting inspired the title of the MoMA installation) here.
Overheard
8/27/2007 4:27:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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