Among the first and most universal genres of visual art, narrative painting has long been a primary storytelling method. However, it has endured a critical environment over the previous half-century, from conceptualism to successive waves of new media and dematerialised art practices. In Narrative + Painting the writers-as-narrators tease out the aesthetic, cultural, historical and political narratives that have kept painting alive and alert to its surroundings, as if the end-of-painting myth is, well, a myth.