PERSEITY is an art / criticism magazine founded on the conviction that individual artworks are the basic unit of meaning in art analysis, that perception is an activity and takes work, hence that writing criticism is its own creative work.
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Love and Form
July 28, 2026 | by Emily Chun
The most important, most extreme, and most incurable dispute is that waged in us by two of our most basic strivings: the one that desires form, shape, definition and the other, which protests agai...
Why Paint?
Published in PERSEITY Art Review on April 12, 2026.
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Recently Diva Corp posted on Instagram
It’s 2026, you’re an artist, you can do anything… Why paint?
knowing, of course, the question would provoke responses both fanatical and flip...
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
May 10, 2026 | by Brock Riggins
Raphael, Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View, Looking Down (Study for the Figure of Charity, Sala di Costantino), 1519-20. Charcoal, chalk, and gouche on beige paper.
When we look at Raphael, where...
Image-Object
May 23, 2026 | by Ian Myers
CrossLypka, bbbb, 2026, Glazed ceramic, 20 × 64 × 7 inches
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In Sports, the exhibition at Bureau by Oakland-based duo CrossLypka, the first work to the right when you walk in is made up of four, nearly identi...
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This spring, the perennial return of warmth was accompanied by the perennial question: Why paint?—and, if paint, how? (—and how not.)
Why Paint? | by Candice T. Seymour | April 12, 2026
“Painting as an artistic category is irrelevant. We...
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Perseity is an art / criticism magazine founded on the conviction that individual artworks are the basic unit of meaning in art analysis, that perception is an activity and takes work, hence that writing criticism is its own creative work.
"Art" critic (not that the internet needs another). Fewer artists, fewer critics!
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