Here are our favorite moments in art blogging from 2008, in no particular order:
� When Pearl Montana, a Canadian oil-and-gas company, wanted to drill for oil near Smithson�s Spiral Jetty, high-minded Tyler Green (Modern Art Notes), pulling out all the stops with in-depth daily coverage, managed to draw enough mainstream media attention to have the drilling proposal suspended.
� The art blogger tribe defended feisty C-Monster against the LA Times� brazen name grab, which we won�t mention here. And still haven’t added to the Two Coats link list.
� New York Mag art critic and Pulitzer Prize nominee Jerry Saltz, acknowledging art bloggers� relevance and wide-spread readership, responded with an apology to Anaba�s criticism crit. Later in the year, Saltz amusingly titled one of his reviews �Two Coats of Painting.� That’s a blog reference, right?
� During the New York art fairs in March, Art Bloggers @ organized a blogger panel discussion where we met the humble aesthetes responsible for our favorite blogs.
� Bloggers embraced Facebook and Twitter, strengthening our online community through events notification, status updates, and 140-character �What are you doing?� posts. Of course we�re still not sure what to do with all those damn gifts, snowballs, hugs, and pokes sitting in the Notifications file….
� Hardworking CultureGrrl, after reading about blogging addiction, admitted her powerlessness over the blog. She vowed to step back from the daily grind, but predictably has continued posting nonetheless, recently uncovering the unfortunate deaccessions at the beleaguered National Academy.
� And last but not least, powerhouse blogger Paddy Johnson (Art Fag City) teamed up with non-profit Brooklyn gallery Momenta Art and conducted a successful online appeal to fund AFC. Hey Paddy–it’s a brilliant idea; our check’s in the mail!
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Short story: Rescue Center [Elizabeth Scheer]
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Confrontational color at Analog Diary
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Elisa D’Arrigo: Between the beautiful and the grotesque
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Jo Baer: Space, position, and light
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Studio visit: Charles Clough’s audacious return to sculpture
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Ed Ruscha’s retro spective
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Part 2: On “negative criticism”
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Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: September, 2023
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The real deal: James Brooks reconsidered
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Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2023
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On “negative criticism”
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Two Coats Obituaries
- Bushwick’s Tim Gowan August 12, 2023Even though making art is often an experience that happens in the solitude of one's studio, it rarely occurs in a vacuum. Artists rely on each other for support, reinforcement, inspiration, and challenge, forming communities to avoid feeling like fish out of water in this world. Tim Gowan was one of those artists who cherished […]
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@_lisa_tan knows how to fill a space. The waiting room entrances with framed prints of Klee, Matisse, etc, the room framing, the large letters, a video viewing room with chairs for an audience @acceleratorsu in Stockholm.
Two Coats of Paint is celebrating National Daughter’s Day by honoring Lena, who some of you may recall was the mastermind behind our Social Media Services Project a few years ago. She has since opened her own business @honeyhomeofbeauty in #OldMysticCT. Love you @lena.alohalani ❤️🏆❤️ Daughter, visionary, and muse.
Image: @meadowflowerphotography #honeyhomeofbeauty @mystic_disc #mysticct
Latest post, link in profile / Elisa D’Arrigo: Between the beautiful and the grotesque / Contributed by Kay Whitney / There is a fundamental paradox at work in Elisa D’Arrigo’s ceramic objects – while they are unmistakably beautiful, they break every standard for what is considered “beautiful.” They are small, shambolic, eccentric objects lacking symmetry; they are not overtly colorful and don’t attempt to please. They are humble, not loudly announcing nor applauding their own appearance; understated and private, the viewer must come to them. Rather than exhibiting the mechanical surfaces of a wheel-thrown or machine-made object, her forms bear the imprint of her hands and in that way reveal the processes of their making. If there is any other artist with whom her work could be compared only George Ohr, the “mad potter of Biloxi,” comes to mind. His small “puzzle mugs” demonstrate the same sensibility — simultaneously humorous and serious, their extraordinary eccentric surfaces and coloration are reminiscent of D’Arrigo’s, exposing a shared aesthetic. Link in profile
@elisadarrigo1 @elizabethharrisgallery @k.whtny #ceramics #chelseagalleries
Image: Elisa D’Arrigo, Making a Move 6, 2023 7 x 6.5 x 4 inches, courtesy of the artist & Elizabeth Harris Gallery
“Something darkly set itself at our senses’ five thresholds without stepping over them,” a cinematic two-person show @bonnierskonsthall with Tulsa Lovell and Sara-Vide Ericson, is a haunting mediation on the past, the future, and the inexorable force of nature. In terms of craft and content, unlike anything I’ve seen in NYC. Or is it? Images are tagged.
@tildalovell @saravidee #swedishartists #konsthall #theatricalinstallation #manvsnature #bonnierskonsthall
Snapshot: Overlooking the Central Baltic Sea from @fotografiska.stockholm. We saw the @shirin__neshat and @therealpeterlindbergh shows — strange combo, but both moving in their own way. The place is dark and loud — more like a nightclub than a gallery. The bar on the top floor is beautiful.
Latest post, link in profile / Inside: Arthouse art house / Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The set-up of Vasilis Katsoupis’ slickly but somewhat facilely resonant feature debut Inside is deceptively simple. A high-end art thief is helicoptered onto the roof of a luxury Manhattan high-rise and, with the aid of a techie accomplice, hacks into the security system of an absurdly opulent penthouse, owned by a high-end art collector who is evidently away for a season or two. The thief is targeting several of Egon Schiele’s signature vampy drawings and a singularly valuable self-portrait. Link in profile
@insidethefilm #insidethefilm #jonathanstevenson #twocoatsofpaint #filmreview #wilemdafoe #VasilisKatsoupis
Surprise: #PatriciaTreib solo on view in Stockholm @galerie_nordenhake 💥 beautiful paintings, elegantly installed ❤️
Swedish-born and UK-based, artist, activist, writer and eco-feminist Monica Sjöö (31 December 1938 - 8 August 2005) fought for freedom from oppression, but especially for women’s rights. “THE GREAT COSMIC MOTHER” @modernamuseet is her first retrospective. Swipe for the image that was considered blasphemous and obscene in the 1970s.
Rejecting abstract art as a Western male privilege, she asked: “How does one communicate women’s strength, struggle, rising up from oppression, blood, childbirth, sexuality – in stripes and triangles?”
#MonicaSjöö #cosmicmother #modernamuseet #stockholm
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We haven’t added the name-grabbers to our links either. We do get a lot of hits from Two Coats of Paint, so thank you for having us on there. Happy blogging!
Chris,
Congratulations on the successful launch of MWCapacity this year.
Best,
–Sharon
hi… i’m in very near pocket utopia through january… i’ll stop in and say hi during your residency for sure.
and hopefully attend the get-together… i’d really like to meet joanne m. and the others.
See you then.
–Sharon
Sharon,
A big thanks for your great posts this year. What you do is unique among the art blogs and it’s much appreciated–as is your writing for The Brooklyn Rail.
See you in January at your Utopia Salon. (You too, Martin!)
Thanks Joanne–see you in Bushwick next year.
–Sharon