Contributed by Jason Andrew / It seems only fitting that University at Buffalo, an institution built on the reputation of one of the great female […]
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Remote: Teaching art online
Contributed by Peter Plagens / Serious studio art classes cannot be taught online. Oh, they can be “taught” — if the professors and students accept, […]
Katherine Finkelstein: On scale, perspective, and upending expectation
Contributed by Luisa Caldwell / A few days before “Babybox” was scheduled to open at Motherbox gallery in Brooklyn, artist, gallery director, and curator Katherine […]
Quick study: How the world is changing
Here are some articles and online projects that I thought might interest Two Coats readers. I’ve been somewhat productive in working on an artists’ book […]
Jude Tallichet’s sense of the ineffable
Contributed by Adam Simon / Jude Tallichet‘s Fire Escape, one of several sculptures in her exhibition “Heat Map” at Smack Mellon in Dumbo, doesn’t look […]
A conversation: Becky Yazdan and Zachary Keeting
Abstract painter Becky Yazdan, who earned her MFA at the NY Studio School studying with painters Bill Jensen and Graham Nickson, recently had a solo […]
Leslie Wayne: 2020 Armory report
Contributed by Leslie Wayne / How do you look at art at an art fair? Do you do a quick pass through the whole thing […]
Paige Beeber: Transient future
Paige Beeber at Arts + Leisure, installation view Contributed by Zach Seeger / The novel coronavirus has prompted a slowdown in global commerce. While temporary, […]
White, Woll, and the artist’s sense of control
Contributed by Riad Miah / Taylor Anton White and Andy Woll’s solo exhibitions opened at two galleries next door to each other in Tribeca, White’s […]
Panel discussion: Painting in 2020
On January 16, 2020, artist and curator Jason Stopa invited Katherine Bradford, Sharon Butler, Craig Stockwell and Thomas Micchelli for a panel discussion about the […]
Art and Film: Surviving the Oscars
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Martin Scorsese directed what was probably the best American movie of the year — The Irishman— and it garnered not […]
Studio visit: Susanna Heller’s endless strength
Contributed by Medrie MacPhee / Before Susanna Heller’s paintings were wrapped and shipped to Toronto for her upcoming solo show at Olga Korper, I brought […]
On its own terms: “Specific Forms” at Loretta Howard
Contributed by Kim Uchiyama / “Specific Forms” at Loretta Howard Gallery illuminates a particular moment in 20th century art history where works created by a […]
The political power of art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In a typically penetrating New York Times column earlier this month, David Leonhardt pointed out that one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s many […]
Essex Flowers: Waiting to be activated
It saved me once too often,You’d never know how often.I’ve pictured you in coffins:My baby in a coffin.But I love it when you blink your […]
On a Cartoon Graveyard
Contributed by Julian Kreimer / At 3:10 pm on a blustery Thursday afternoon, the falling sun refracted off the 3rd floor windows of PS 42, […]
Steve Hicks: Sparring shape and line
Contributed by Carol Diamond / Steve Hicks‘s oil and acrylic canvases exude confidence and exuberance, like a teenager sporting a new outfit and venturing out […]
Art and Film: 2019 Top Ten
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It’s been a fine year for movies, their demise due to streaming having been greatly exaggerated notwithstanding awkward episodes like […]
Richard Tuttle sees the light
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Richard Tuttle, who has lived in New Mexico since the late 1980s, recently got an expansive new studio on Mount […]
Allison�Schulnik’s glamour magic and illusion
Contributed by Kari Adelaide Razdow / Moths are weird and macabre. Allison Schulnik, in her animated short MOTH in �Suffering From Realness� at Mass MoCA, fully captures their gothic elegance. […]
