Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, March 20, 2023
Contributed by Mira Dayal / Pastel balloons pregnant with helium shimmer in front of angular shadows cast from unseen objects in a photograph of a small room. In a nearby painting, these shapes morph into colorful arcs and elbows that playfully mimic the photograph’s composition. The candid titling of the […]
The following text�is Raphael Rubinstein‘s�moving remembrance of �Shirley Jaffe,�which he�read during the�October memorial service for Jaffe�at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The images are courtesy of Tibor de Nagy, Jaffe’s NYC gallery.
Two Coats of Paint�began publishing in 2007, and this past year we saw tremendous growth�thanks to tax-deductible contributions�from more than 200�readers, support from new advertisers, and a generous follow-up grant from the�Creative Capital �/ �Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Program.�Your funding enabled us�to�redesign the site, overhaul the antiquated Blogger code, […]
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schlatzlein / David Salle, in the 1980s an enfant terrible of painting, has published�How to See,�a collection of essays on art and artists written over the course of some�thirty years. While many people do not know Salle as a writer, recently he has had�a regular column in […]
After a shocking upset in the presidential election, David Remnick writes in the New Yorker that the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of […]
UPDATE: After the 2016 election, Democrats gained six�seats in the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has 435�seats from the 50 states. Currently, 246 seats are held by Republicans, 186 are held by Democrats, and three seats are vacant. In order to get a majority, the Democrats would have […]
Running late, I arrived at the press preview for the Agnes Martin retrospective long after all of the other critics and journalists had left. My inefficiency turned out to be a bonus. I had the place to myself, and walking alone up the Guggenheim spiral and following the unwinding of […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Kelly Reichardt�s unostentatiously virtuosic Certain Women, based on Maile Meloy�s short stories, depicts hardscrabble Montana in angular austerity, with the simple lines of mountains and fences and utilitarian buildings, in the subdued colors of impending snow, through iterations of circumstances that illuminate foibles and strengths. […]
In Suzanne Joelson‘s confrontational new paintings the conflicting forces of order and disruption animate a lively hash of vinyl photographic banners, paint, patterning, hollow-core wood panels, broken bits of debris, fabrics, geometric sequencing, and idiosyncratic markmaking. On the occasion of her solo show Studio 10 in Bushwick, Joelson met with […]
Contributed by Rachel Farber / What is a queer perspective? How does queerness meet form? Students at the Yale School of Art, Loren Britton and Res, began asking these questions after seeing the student-run exhibition ” Video Mixer,” curated by Allyn Hughes & Jody Joyner, in 2015. Their conversation precipitated […]
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