Here are some recent items cut and pasted from the Two Coats Twitter Feed. For readers unfamiliar with Twitter, “RT” indicates the item has been repeated, or “retweeted,” from someone else’s Twitter feed. The “@” symbol indicates that I’m referring to another Twitter-er.
�Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.� �New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s / http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/05/03/joan-mitchell-by-patricia-albers /19 minutes ago
Hot! RT @Tate: NEW on the blog today: Mir� plays with fire in his late paintings (image above) / http://ow.ly/5KUHP / 55 minutes ago
Welcome and thanks for supporting art blogs//RT @culturepundits: We’re thrilled to welcome our newest sponsor: @wassaicproject Summer Festival Aug. 5-7 http://goo.gl/XwhJ6
Most popular Two Coats post in the last 24 hours? Lucien Freud, Topless (March 2010) http://bit.ly/d4V9WQ /58 minutes ago
Roberta Smith on Lyonel Feininger http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/design/lyonel-feininger-show-at-the-whitney-review.html /15 hours ago
@cmonstah: RIP Lucien Freud http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/21/lucian-freud-died-aged-88 / 16 hours ago
Heading to @RealArtWays today to see the Jarrett Min Davis show http://bit.ly/r8yjF1 / 21 Jul
“We have never had an inventory of the vault.� –Guy Wildenstein in French Courthttp://nyti.ms/pXgrh7 / 20 Jul
RT @AndrewRusseth: Talking about the rise of Eastern European contemporary art: http://bit.ly/oyzvTj / 20 Jul
Obama hangs a Rockwell (image above) to commemorate public school integration in New Orleans. http://bit.ly/naBN04 / 20 Jul
Portrait show in a pop-up gallery in Hudson: https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2011/07/pop-up-portrait-show-and-nada-in-hudson.html?m=1 / 18 Jul
Attempted art heist at Westlake, Ohio, Taco Bell http://bit.ly/ogl0RC / 15 Jul
Anaba’s got some good images of Joyce Robins’s work at John Davis http://bit.ly/oTeEHU / 15 Jul (
More about Joyce Robins http://bit.ly/gR1hWQ / 15 Jul)
Video: Production-mode painting http://fb.me/PohsGeuT /15 Jul
At the very top of MY summer bucket list http://bit.ly/cgR328 / 15 Jul
Let’s start the day w some Bob Ross painting lessons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghiBW3r65M&feature=related / Jul 15
Nayland Blake blog post: What the hell are we teaching artists? http://naylandblake.net/wordpress/2011/07/14/what-the-hell-are-we-teaching-artists/ / 14 Jul
Joanne Mattera reports on the Chain Letter Show (image above) at Samson Projects http://bit.ly/mTfnVC