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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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...
Manner and Technique
March 14, 2026 | by Anna Gregor | perseity.nyc
Noel de Lesseps, Arc en ciel, 2024. Oil on linen, 16 x 20 inches.
“He’s completely self-taught. He’ll just get obsessed with a technique and delve deeper and deeper into it.”
—or some such m...
Reflections from a Dead End
February 19, 2026 | by Eric Bayless-Hall
Flora Yukhnovich, The Four Seasons: Summer, 2025 © Flora Yukhnovich. Photo: Joseph Corsica Jr.
“How much finer things are in composition than alone. ’Tis wise in man to make cabinets.” – Emerson’s...
The Consolation of Illustration
January 18, 2026 | by Candice T. Seymour
Dana Schutz, Console, 2003. Oil paint on canvas, 66 × 60 inches.
Painters sure seem to love Dana Schutz. Allegedly she’s a painter’s painter. Whatever that means. If Schutz’s Console is a painter’s...
Le Repas Frugal
January 6, 2026 | by Emmet Elliott
Pablo Picasso, Le Repas Frugal, 1904, printed 1913. Etching, 25 11/16 x 19 11/16 inches (sheet), 18 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches (plate).
The plate has been polished clean. The bottle has been almost emptied. In...
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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.
painter who occasionally writes about Paintings. Co-founder and -editor of PERSEITY Art Review.
"Art" critic (not that the internet needs another). Fewer artists, fewer critics!
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