One of the best things about spending summer in the city is having more time for leisurely studio visits with other artists. Recently I stopped […]
Author: Sharon Butler
North Adams news
Peter Dudek is moving from his longtime Pittsfield studio to a cavernous Beaver Mill space in North Adams, where space is cheap. But before he […]
Inspired by fiction: Recurrence at Fridman
“In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced […]
ON FILM: Hedge priest as anachronistic hero
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / John Michael McDonagh�s blackly satirical film Calvary, set in rural County Sligo in northwest Ireland, doesn�t lack ambition: it tackles […]
Steve Turner Gallery responds to the post about Jonas Lund’s Flip City
I had an idea after posting the “Flip City” update on Tuesday to buy one of Jonas Lund’s paintings and put it up for auction. […]
Update: Jonas Lund and Flip City
UPDATE: Steve Turner Gallery responds–> https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2014/08/steve-turner-gallery-responds-to-post.html Remember “Flip City,” Jonas Lund’s June solo exhibition at Steve Turner in LA that featured a series of […]
New Image Painters challenge Zombie Formalists
Galleries are trying to spread the news: dour Zombie Formalism is out; pop-inflected, often casualist, representational imagery is in. This summer Jesse Greenberg and MacGregor […]
Selected work: Chelsea
Without Andrew Ginzel‘s List (on hiatus until September) and Facebook (recently deactivated), I’ve been left on my own to figure out what shows are out […]
Quick study: Greg Allen's @TheRealHennessy tweet paintings, MESS, working conditions, more
Greg Allen is making paintings again, and this time he’s painting them himself. According to AnimalNY, Artist, critic and our go-to appropriation expert Greg Allen has turned joke […]
Food and beverage art: Coates, FOODshed, Honeycutt, Beavers, and more
In the early 1990s, Rikrit Tiravanija began organizing exhibitions around cooking Thai food. A practitioner of what ultimately came to be known as Relational Aesthetics, […]
On FILM: Richard Linklater�s school of life
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Richard Linklater�s acclaimed movie Boyhood is as good as advertised � a forceful and mesmerizing story about growing up in […]
EMAIL: Mike Cloud’s shopping list
I recently received an announcement for “Bad Faith and Universal Technique,” Mike Cloud’s September solo show at Thomas Erben Gallery. Cloud, born in 1974 in […]
Snaps from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Last week I went to Philadelphia to visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where I’ll be teaching an MFA Seminar and serving as a […]
Otto Piene is dead
According to BBC News, Otto Piene died on Thursday, shortly after the opening of an exhibition of his work at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. He died […]
Art and Fiction: Rachel Kushner�s molten optimism
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / The view that the 1970s were culturally under-appreciated is now so firmly entrenched that they no longer are. With respect […]
