BLOGer in the News
ANABA's Martin Bromirski is in the news. Read it here.
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Monday, May 30, 2005
Gopnik on Portraits
Blake Gopnik comes across with a really excellent piece on portraiture. Read it here.
Blake Gopnik comes across with a really excellent piece on portraiture. Read it here.
On June 1, the National Portrait Gallery is launching its first nationwide portrait competition, borrowing an idea from its British counterpart. Photography isn't being allowed in. But even if some truly interesting painting or sculpture emerges when the winners are announced next year, it's hard to see how it could touch the hermetic world of official portraiture. Unless a picture looks a fair bit like the portraiture that's come before, it doesn't fill the peculiar social and political roles its patrons have in mind for it.