Contributed by Sharon Butler / This year Trestle Gallery�s summer group show, �Small Work,� was curated by Bill Carroll, a painter and the director at […]
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Recognition for artists: Sondheim Artscape Prize in Baltimore
Baltimore�s most prestigious art prize is the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a sizable�fellowship�awarded to artists who live or work in the Baltimore region. […]
Film: A strategic retreat�s smirk of defiance in DUNKIRK
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /In his paradoxically granular war epic Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan assumes viewers know that the British Army�s 1940 strategic retreat from the […]
Adirondack idyll: Jay Invitational of Clay, Rockwell Kent, Ausable Chasm & more
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Some artists�go upstate to get away from the art world in the summer, and others gather an�art […]
Fiction: Light [Rand Richards Cooper]
FOR THIS EDITION of the summer fiction column, my old friend�Rand Richards Cooper has contributed �Light,� a poignant story �published in Big as Life, his�1996 […]
“Painting Not Painting” in Baltimore
Contributed by Sharon Butler / �”Painting Not Painting� is an exhibition at ‘sindikit, the�project space run by Tim Doud and Zo� Charlton�in Baltimore.�Artists include Paolo […]
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 […]
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, […]
