Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / George Eliot said, wisely, that our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. For the great […]
Author: Editor
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / July 10, 2017
Our mid-summer�selected exhibitions list,�organized by neighborhood, is, well, blooming with�group shows that feature flowers, gardens, and nature. For those of you who are out of […]
An artist�s legacy
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Estate planning for artists is complex, but Ellsworth Kelly, who died at 92 in December 2015, seems to have considered […]
Art and politics: “Broad Stripes and Bright Stars” in New Haven
Aicha Woods and Dave Coon have co-curated “Broad Stripes and Bright Stars,” a thoughtful group exhibition on view at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art […]
Art and Film: Not so simple folk (art)
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / According to Aisling Walsh�s irrepressibly winning Maudie (2016), Maud Dowley, plagued by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, was through no fault of […]
Quick study
LINKS:�Casualism in Puerto Rico, Kurt Cobain�s paintings, legislation to ease student loan debt for artists, an interview with Brian Belott, artists recommend books, Tatiana Berg […]
Email: Daniel Wiener on art in fiction
Daniel Wiener, who recently presented exceptional new work in �Doubled,� a two-person show at Studio 10 in Bushwick, sent a note in response to our […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / June 19, 2017
Our late-June selected exhibitions list is�organized by neighborhood, and for those of you who are at your friends� beach shack on the shoreline or stuck�in […]
Medrie MacPhee: Flat-out at Tibor de Nagy
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Medrie MacPhee’s new paintings, on view at Tibor de Nagy (recently relocated to shared space with Betty Cuningham on the […]
Art and Film: The life and death of a cinephilic boomtown
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / A somewhat film-nerdy set of historical facts gave rise to found-footage maven Bill Morrison�s extraordinarily artful and expansive documentary Dawson […]
Images: The 2017 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Residents
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, one of our neighbors in DUMBO, announced the artists they’ve selected for the 2017 residencies�last week. It’s a �highly selective program, […]
Fiction: Consummate Saturday [Paul D’Agostino]
“Consummate Saturday” A short story by Paul Da’Agostino Mina�s fourth and final bout of existence-racking pre-febrile dry heaves terminated at 4:37 on Saturday morning amid […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / June 4, 2017
Our selected June exhibitons list is�organized by neighborhood, and for those of you who have already packed up and left town�or are holed up in […]
Art and Film: Wajda�s final word on art and politics
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /�Wladyslaw Strzeminski, the reluctant hero of Afterimage, the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda�s last film before his death at age 90 […]
Fiction: The Teddy Bears [Laurie Fendrich]
Our second installment of summer fiction is “The Teddy Bears,” an amusing short story written by artist and arts writer Laurie Fendrich about a mid-career artist whose […]
