f The timing and times of painting

This article explores three aspects of painting and time: first, the experience of growing older with painting and paintings, particularly those of the recent past, second, the contrast between looking dated, a frequent characteristic of paintings of the recent past, and looking new or contemporary, and finally, the distinction between the ways in which painting is both the subject and the object of time, what I will call the ‘timing of painting’, its capacity to work with time and critical efforts, some historical, others more recent, to assign painting a place in its epoch, its ‘times’.