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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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Home Studio vs. Outside Studio: The Tradeoffs Every Painter Eventually Faces
For painters, the question of where to work eventually becomes just as important as what to paint. Some artists thrive in the solitude of a...
Art Cuts to Charleston
I know none of us can breath with how much time is folding in on itself but last week, a federal judge’s ruling that President...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...