Looking at Blogs

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Yeah, yeah, I know I haven't been my usual prolific blog self lately. Sometimes life gets in the way, so today I'm aggregating a few blog posts I read regularly. But this is an interactive post. I also want to know what blogs you read--or which posts from these blogs you particularly liked.

Updated 2.12: Scroll for links to additional blogs provided by readers

Studio Critical
Author: Valerie Brennan
Description:  "This blog is about process, practice and getting to know a little bit more about what painters get up to in the studio."
Current post: New York Painter Leslie Wayne
"I generally have around 5 or 6 panels going on at a time, but they don’t all require the same amount of focus and deliberation. Some paintings simply need another layer of color applied and left to dry, where others call for some sort of resolution."
Image: Leslie Wayne, Untitled (yelloworangeteal),2013, oil on wood; here, detail

Painters' Table

Editor: Brett Baker

Description: "Magazine of the p-ainting blogosphere"--a digest of writing compiled by Baker, with features by Baker

Recent links from the blogosphere: 

. Leslie Wayne and Lisa Pressman via Studio Critical

. Sigmar Polke by Victor Maldonado at the Portland Art Museum via Port

. Nancy Spero by Thomas Micchelli via Hyperallergic

. A report by Baker on the Jay DeFeo show at San Francisco MoMA 

Image:  Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958-66; oil with wood and mica on canvas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Jay DeFeo Trust, Berkeley, CA, and purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Judith Rothschild Foundation; © 2012 The Jay DeFeo Trust

Two Coats of Paint

Editor: Sharon Butler

Description: "I created Two Coats of Paint to share reviews, commentary, news, and background information about painting and related subjects."
Current posts:

. Michelle Forsyth at Auxiliary Projects in Bushwick

. Mario Naves and Brett Baker at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
" Where Naves paints thin and elegantly hard edge, keeping his lively images on the surface, Baker goes thick and clotty, creating small-scale blocks of abstraction, seemingly squeezed directly from the tube. Baker's paintings are darker and more obsessive than Naves, and they suggest that he is entertaining a philosophical question, trying to convince himself that, despite all practical evidence to the contrary, meaning resides in the process. And so he continues--we all do." 

Image: Brett Baker, Sisyphus (after Camus), 2008-2011, oil on canvas, 6 x 6 inches.

Artcritical
Editor: David Cohen

Description: "The online magazine of art and ideas"

Current post: Cohen's  In From the Cold: The Outsider Art Fair
"The whole discourse of 'outsider' is arguably turned around in an art world where academic training has largely dispensed with formal skill sets and where artists are encouraged to dwell upon their obsessions or aspects of their identity that makes them 'other.”' But this doesn’t make anyone an outsider. Nor does it seem to rob the genuine outsiders of their authenticity."

More: Cohen is the founder, organizer and moderator of The Review Panel, a monthly examination of three or four exhibitions selected by Cohen and discussed by a changing group of art critics. Here's the link to a Podcast of the November 2012 Review Panel in which Blake Gopnik, Jane Harris and Christian Viveros-Faune join Cohen in discussing shows at the Met, the Brookyn Museum and Hunter College

Image: Winfred Rembert, Candy Soda, 2004, dye on carved and tooled leather, 35 x 27 inches. Courtesy of Kinz + Tillou Fine Art

As art writing in the mainstream press continued to diminish the art blogosphere is ever more essential to us.  I'll continue to make my contribution as well. But for today,  it's your journalistic contribution that counts. Tell us what art blogs you read. 

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What you're reading
As you post your links in the Comments section, I'll create live links here:

Toby Sisson: 
Daily Serving
Dawoud Bey's What's Going On
Hyperallergic   

Jane:
Katherine Tyrrell's Making a Mark
Daniel Maidman
Gurney Journey

Tamar Zinn:
Altoon Sultan's Studio and Garden
Lynette Haggard Art Blog
The Brooklyn Rail 

Lynette Haggard:
Nancy Natale's Art in the Studio
Abstract Critical
Lisa Pressman
Deborah Barlow's Slow Muse
Structure and Imagery

Thomas Hoadley:
Altoon Sultan's Studio and Garden
Deborah Barlow's Slow Muse

Annell Livingston:
Some Things I Think About

Jeanne Heifetz:
In the Make

Michael Chesley Johnson
Google Reader bundle of painting blogs

Anonymous 1
Look and Listen by Yifat Gat 
Paul Behnke's Structure and Imagery
Tamar Zinn 
Non-Objective Painting
Drawing in an Expanded Field (en français) 

Anonymous 2
Leslie Parke 

Sharon Butler:
Raphael Rubenstein's The Silo
Mira Schor's A Year of Positive Thinking 
Carol Diehl's Art Vent
Joshua Abelow's Art Blog Art Blog
Catherine Kehoe's Powers of Observation
Nancy McCarthy's Painting: Personal and Powerful

I'm adding Two more:
Sharon Butler's Two Coats of Paint
And  Shana Dumont Garr,  the mag-style website of the art historian/curator

Susan Shulman
William Everton 

Diane McGregor
Edward Winkleman 
Rebecca Crowell