Painters on Paintings took a pandemic pause. One benefit to running a small journal is that it can wax and wane with the tides of our energies and immune systems. This is what has kept the project sustainable since 2014.

Take a moment to pause and take care of yourself both physically and mentally.

We at Painters on Paintings believe Black Lives Matter and fully support all those protesting and taking actions to demand a more just society.

We are starting an 'Art in Isolation' series. Please share your thoughts on art during this time. Here are some of mine.

I wanted to draw your attention to the first episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History, in which he looks at the career of painter Elizabeth Thompson as a way to think about tokenism, moral licensing, and being the first outsider to enter a closed world.

I wanted to share with you this episode from the podcast The Ezra Klein Show where he interviews Jaron Lanier.

“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change?