In The Guardian Jonathan Jones reports that his visit to the Rothko Chapel in Houston left him impressed, but troubled that Rothko‘s project is so […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Studio Update: Summer progress
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Summer is usually a productive season for those of us who teach, but inevitably some things remain unfinished because gauging […]
Laylah Ali: Life of the mind
Laylah Ali’s drawing show, opening at the Decordova Museum today, features flat, seemingly naif drawings of costumed characters, layered with handwritten text. Random thought, overheard […]
Mike Bayne says, “I don’t know.”
Two Coats of Paint’s inbox is awash with gallery press releases this week, some more compelling than others. Canadian Mike Bayne, whose first NYC solo […]
NY Mag’s fall painting picks
Giorgio Morandi: 1890–1964, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY. Sept. 16–Dec. 14.“When the master of quiet still lifes died in 1964, he was unfashionable in New […]
Old-timers in Provincetown: Herman Maril, Robert Henry
Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid reports on a few painting shows in Provincetown. “Herman Maril: An Artist’s Two Worlds,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, […]
Guston’s paint still looks wet
At MoMA, installed in the teeming atrium space, I was happy to see seven of Philip Guston’s cartoon paintings from the sixties and seventies. I […]
Brooklyn Rail silent art auction: Buy this painting!
Join me at The Brooklyn Rail Silent Art Auction, hosted by Pace Wildenstein, on September 5, from 6-9pm, where you can bid on my painting […]
Manny Farber: The profundity of existence in its ordinary details
Union-Tribune art critic Robert L. Pincus on painter Manny Farber, who died early Monday morning: “Manny Farber never tired of looking at small things: a […]
Publishing the unpublished: Coates on Bromirski
At anaba, Martin Bromirski has posted an unpublished review of his 2006 show, Art of This Century, written by painting pal Jason Coates. “When discussing […]
Eva Lake on Hannah H�ch
Blogging painter Eva Lake reports today that reading The Photomontages of Hannah H�chhas been both inspiring and depressing. “When I first discovered Dada in the […]
Maqbool Fida Husain threatened by Hindu groups for his paintings of nude gods and goddesses
In The Guardian Randeep Ramesh reports that Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India’s most famous living artists, was conspicuous by his absence from the country’s […]
Plagens novel: It’s just fiction
Peter Plagens, painter and longtime art critic for Newsweek magazine, has written The Art Critic, a novel which will be published on artnet. According to […]
More artists who write?
According to Douglas Wagner in The Arizona Gazette, two self-anointed “grammar vigilantes” who toured the nation removing typos from public signs have been banned from […]
Cotter declares recreated Knoebel installation authentic!
NY Times critic Holland Cotter made the trip up the Hudson this week to visit Dia: Beacon and reports that he has no problem with […]
