At Art:21 Blog, the Flash Points guest blogger series is focusing on art and politics this month. Today, Brooklyn Rail writer/editor Tom Micchelli, after seeing a performance of The Investigation, a 1966 documentary drama by Peter Weiss (1916-1982), considers how art can effect political change. “The question implies an integral, […]
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Triple Candie reopens: “Because we saw artists as complicit with the problems we were seeing, we were motivated not to work with them”
Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett are reopening Triple Candie this month at 148th Street, just west of Amsterdam. At ArtInfo, Chris Bors sits down with the husband-and-wife team, who are also the co-publishers of Art on Paper, to discuss the future of Triple Candie and its controversial past. “In 2006 […]
Hello Wikipedia, it’s the blogosphere calling
If you have any experience contributing to Wikipedia, you’ll appreciate “Wikipedia Art,” an online project launched today by artists Scott Kildall and Nathanial Stern. Of course, by the time you read this, the whole project may have been deleted by the anonymous band of pedantic Wikipedia editors (see Update below). […]
Bonnard: One tough son-of-a-bitch?
Mario Naves says Bonnard (1867-1947) is an artist beloved by many, but not by all. “His luminous pictures of fruit baskets, breakfast tables and keening, afternoon light have engendered surprising rancor. Only those ‘who know nothing about the grave difficulties of art,’ wrote art critic Christian Zervos shortly after Bonnard�s […]
Thanks Birdie
Are you familiar with the art blog Dear Ada? I discovered it a few months ago over on Alla Prima’s blogroll, and immediately added it to the Two Coats link list. Maintained by a blogger named Birdie, Dear Ada features images and links to different artists’ work that catches Birdie’s […]
Joan Banach: GeoAb with a shot of vulgarity please
When Tom Micchelli stopped by Small A Projects, he was puzzled by Joan Banach’s dark, virtually monochromatic hard-edged abstractions that looked like they belonged in MoMA, circa 1959. Until he recognized her delight in the vulgar. “Not that her work is crass�on the contrary, it is the last word in […]
Thanks, Hank Hoffman, for writing about my project in Hartford
Hank Hoffman at Connecticut Art Scene reviewed “Lost and Found,” a show at the Connecticut Commission for Culture that includes my recent project “The Search For Moby Dicks.” Here’s what he had to say about it. “I took in ‘Lost and Found,‘ a show featuring works created by artists who […]
Pocket Utopia Salon report: Moving beyond ObamArt
After suffering through eight years of dangerously misguided Bush administration policies, we all heaved a sigh of relief when Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States. That Bush�s presidency dragged the nation into peril and disrepute certainly made the American people eager for a […]
“I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held”
For years Brooklyn artist Matt Held painted portraits from old family photos, but this past Thanksgiving he began using Facebook portraits as source material. On his blog he writes that one day his wife was playing around with the computer, took a picture of herself in iPhoto – her interpretation […]
How to get attention: Give blogs the love
Here are some of the artists and bloggers who have recently confessed that they’re regular Two Coats of Paint readers. I recently received a note from Carrie Elston, editor in chief of Mapcidy, that Two Coats of Paint is listed among Mapcidy’s top art blogs in NYC. According to their […]
