Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here is a selection of art articles and books I’ve been reading and pondering this week.
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Abby Lloyd: Recipes for disaster
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When the lockdown went into effect, Abby Lloyd wanted to curate an online project, but envisioned something more personal than […]
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 […]
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Reading links: NYC art fair cheat sheet, last chance for Rochelle Feinstein�s show at the Bronx Museum, Mira Schor�s lifetime achievement award, Allen Ruppersberg at […]
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Contributed by Sharon Butler / The semester is over and I�m finally catching up on the news. Here are links to some of the stories that caught […]
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This edition of “Quick study” includes good news about how the arts drive economic growth and bad news about MoCA curator Helen Molesworth. Also: Grant […]
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Stories about painting in the news include: the return of a stolen Degas, why portrait painting is making a comeback, and the Russian intrigue in […]
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According to Hauser & Wirth, abstract painter Jack Whitten has died�at 78. In 2013 NYTimes review, Holland Cotter�praised Whitten for his restless energy: With a […]
Quicktime: Fast, casual painting in Philadelphia
Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / In his influential Art in America article “Provisional Painting” (2009), critic Raphael Rubinstein traced a history—from Joan Miró to […]
Al Taylor, structurally unique
Contributed by Katie Fuller / The masterly early paintings of Al Taylor, currently exhibited at David Zwirner, were made from 1971 through 1980, before he […]
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This week: The obituary for prolific New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson, a review of “Painting Paintings, an exhibition of David Reed’s paintings from the 1970s, […]
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This week: Links to a painting review of Mimi Lauter’s show in LA, the winner of the 2017 White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award, Anish Kapoor […]
2017 College Art Association Conference intel
This week the College Art Association Annual Conference takes up residence at the New York Hilton Midtown. For non-members, onsite registration costs $595 for the […]
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Featuring links to articles about the Painting in the 1980s and Raymond Pettibon exhibitions, distracted by politics, Mother Jones, David Corn, Blue Mountain Center, I […]
Snow day reading
Stack of reading: Two issues of Shifter (edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert); exhibition catalogues from Claude Tétot, Frederique Lucien, Corinne Laroche; Pin […]
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The-world-is-falling-apart edition. MoMA protests Trump’s refugee ban, Dore Ashton has died, AFC offers to help artists affected by Trump’s executive orders, movies about politics, NEA […]
How GOP proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act may affect artists
Many self-employed artists have come to rely on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, for comprehensive, fairly-priced health insurance. The following article from […]
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This week: Resistance activities, some Blouin Artinfo gossip, RIP John Berger, two art historians try to stop a museum from sending a painting to the […]
Recommended reading
This edition includes links to upcoming Open Studio dates, Clyfford Still’s pastels, the Miami art fair participant lists, Thornton Willis upstate, the gold toilet at […]
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This week I’ve got links to articles about the Venice Biennale, art blogging grants, James Franco, the trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays at NYU, Margie […]
