Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / It’s a common story of contemporary art for artists to describe abandoning the two-dimensional confines of traditional painting on […]
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Art and Film: Stefan Zweig and the artist�s abdication
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If poet Pablo Neruda weaponized his talent and his plight to stand against authoritarian forces in his native Chile and […]
Landscape in Seattle: Cable Griffith talks to Peter Scherrer
Cable Griffith, a painter and professor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, caught up with Peter Scherrer, a 2016 Two Coats of Paint resident artist, to […]
Fiction: The Unknown Masterpiece [Honore De Balzac]
Today marks the beginning of the Two Coats of Paint fiction column, a special summer section featuring short stories about artists, collectors, galleries, and other matters […]
Invitation: A conversation about online arts writing at the National Arts Club
TONIGHT (May 23, 6pm): ART WORLD BUZZ, The Digital Shift, Where To Find the Latest Art Info; a panel discussion of online arts writing and […]
Thomas Micchelli on Cordy Ryman
Note: This essay, written by artist and art writer Thomas Micchelli, originally appeared in the catalogue for “Free Fall,” Cordy Roman‘s 2017 solo show at Tower […]
Sustenance: Physically estranged from the art world, but not disconnected
In Mathews, a small town located on�the�Chesapeake Bay in�Virginia, Justin Hunter Allen and Lucy Kirkman Allen run�a small gallery that they call�#FFFHEX, after the hexadecimal�designation […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / May 7, 2017
As another�semester winds down,�some of us may be looking to visit�a few outstanding�shows before heading into the studio, out to the country, or back home […]
Invitation: “Blue State” and “Inflation” at DUMBO Open Studios 2017
Can anyone stop thinking about politics these days? We can’t. For “Blue State,” an exhibition we organized for DUMBO Open Studios, May 13 & 14, […]
International job, residency, and curatorial opportunities
Every so often we get an email from e-artnow, an artist-run electronic information service based in Prague that distributes selected e-mail announcements related to contemporary visual arts. […]
Poet Iris Cushing on “There Was,” Robin Hill’s solo at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Iris Cushing / A “cairn” is a group of stones, arranged in some intentional configuration, to mark a place along a trail. To […]
Two Coats of Paint Resident: Julie Wolfe
April 17th through 23rd, DC visual artist Julie Wolfe will be in residence at Two Coats of Paint. Forming an ongoing research-based practice, Wolfe’s conceptual […]
CounterPointe: From white cube to black box
Contributed by Sharon Butler / CounterPointe, an inspired dance project organized by Jason Andrew and Julia Gleich of Norte Maar, unfurled last weekend at the Actors […]
Lunchtime dystopia: CON-Figuration at Postmasters
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Not far from the courthouse, wandering jurors like myself might happen upon Postmasters Gallery on Franklin Street during the mandated […]
Ideas and Influences: Brece Honeycutt
Artist and citizen naturalist Brece Honeycutt lives in Massachusetts, on a colonial farmhouse in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. Fascinated with the history of […]
Images: Jered Sprecher’s first museum exhibition
Jered Sprecher‘s�first museum exhibition, “Outside In” at the Knoxville Museum of Art,�features an unusual�installation strategy that�evokes intimate domestic�spaces�and enables�viewers to experience his recent work in […]
A few tax resources for artists�
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schlatzlein / As an artist, I�used to feel�that�doing my taxes would always be a complicated�burden. But�there is�no good reason tax season has […]
Raymond Pettibon: Long may he buzz
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It would be easy to cast the tireless, unconstrained Raymond Pettibon as the louche trickster demigod of wise-ass artist-snipers. But […]
Free speech: White artist paints Emmett Till, black artists protest
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In 1955,�two white men brutally lynched �Emmet Till, a black 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in their […]
New subjectivity: Figurative painting at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In a lively group show of large canvases at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, curator Jason Stopa makes a strong case […]
