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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Images: Art and fresh air at Industry City Open Studios
Contributed by Katie Fuller /�Industry City’s official website calls itself�an “innovation ecosystem,” and from what I saw this weekend at the Open Studios, they aren’t […]
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 […]
Email gone wrong: Julian Hatton at Elizabeth Harris
To: Two Coats of Paint From: Julian Hatton Dear Brett: Just wondering how one enjoys a post on Two Coats of Paint? �My show is […]
Update: Ryan McLaughlin
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last time I�saw a solo of Ryan McLaughlin’s endearing, small-scale�paintings was in 2013 at Laurel Gitlen, a painting-friendly LES gallery […]
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 […]
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 […]
