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Charleston Art Gallery Receives Top Global Recognition from TripAdvisor

Here's some good news to share today. Thank you to our local press for sharing this: A beloved Charleston gallery has once again been recognized on the world stage. After...

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Looking Within

Contemporary painter Megan Aline will debut a new body of work titled Looking Within, a collection of deeply reflective paintings presented in her signature style of...

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The Phone Has Reshaped the Frame

There’s a quiet pressure happening in contemporary art that we don’t talk about enough: the shape of the phone is starting to influence the shape...

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Why People Are Missing the Point of the Archibald Winner

The backlash to this year’s Archibald Prize winner has been immediate, loud, and honestly… predictable. Richard Lewer’s portrait of Pitjantjatjara elder and artist Iluwanti Ken...

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Are Pay-to-Submit Art Competitions Worth It?

Every artist eventually runs into them. The flashy IG ad.The “global exposure.”The celebrity endorsements.The promise that this competition could be the breakthrough. And usually? There’s...

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The Gift of Paint

There are gifts, and then there are the kinds of gifts that feel like recognition. Recently, a box arrived from Gamblin Paint—one of those boxes you...

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Time Travel

There’s something quietly radical happening every time someone picks up a brush. I've written a bunch about this lately but it seems to be the...

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Why Artists Keep Finding Their Way to Maine

....And why we keep returning, year after year There’s a quiet migration that happens every summer—painters, photographers, writers, and dreamers drifting north, pulled by something...

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The Reality Behind the 50/50 Split: A Shared Bet

There is a number that gets repeated so often in the gallery world that it starts to feel like a rule or a law of...

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The Quiet Power of a Good Title

Finding inspiration for a painting isn’t always the hard part, sometimes it’s what comes after. The brush is down, the paint has settled, and there...

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