Through June 23, the Milwaukee Art Museum is showing a curated group of 50 international artists who are active as practicing painters. I am a painter, and I attended the show expecting to be generally disappointed; however, I was pleasantly surprised. (I think I expected to see a lot of work that wasn’t actually painting?) The two paintings below were among several that made me excited to get back in my studio. The works by Magalie Guerin and Yun-Fei Ji have a fresh approach to the medium while being conversant with historical considerations.