Contributed by Mira Dayal / Pastel balloons pregnant with helium shimmer in front of angular shadows cast from unseen objects in a photograph of a […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Thank you, Shirley
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 […]
Our Year-End Fundraising Drive: How you can help
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, […]
Reading David Salle
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 […]
After Donald Trump�s victory, a struggle ahead
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 […]
Gentrification: Congressional District party makeovers?
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 […]
Agnes Martin: A resolutely solitary endeavor
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 […]
Art and Film: Kelly Reichardt�s stoic women
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 […]
Suzanne Joelson: How things change
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 […]
Examining queer @ Yale University
Contributed by Rachel Farber / What is a queer perspective? How does queerness meet form? Students at the Yale School of Art, Loren Britton and […]
Scott Daniel Ellison: “Every artist is in some way self-taught”
Scott Daniel Ellison’s images of flora and fauna are suffused with personhood–trees wave bony limbs, bats have human faces, and animals wear jewelry. Working at […]
Quick study
Links to the story about the art history professor who is charged with forgery and her difficulties in the Franklin Pierce art department (lawsuits, etc.), […]
Installation view: Machines of Paint and Other Materials
When artist Jennifer Riley saw a cavernous vacant storefront on Front Street in DUMBO, she thought it would make a good exhibition space, so she […]
Marjorie Welish on Leslie Roberts at Minus Space
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / American artists may over-esteem the vernacular as the only true democratic mode. But occasionally a vernacular mythopoesis really inspires a good body […]
Elise Ferguson: Courting imperfection
In order to fully apprehend Elise Ferguson’s sensational new paintings, viewers must make a trip to Greenpoint this weekend; looking at JPEGs just won’t do. […]
