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 […]
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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 […]
Ginny Casey: Disembodied hands and lumps of clay in Philadelphia
Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / It�s a common story of contemporary art for artists to describe abandoning the two-dimensional confines of traditional painting on […]
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 […]
Scooter LaForge and the sporadic, subconscious mind
Contributed by Grant Wahlquist / Scooter LaForge is a painter who lives and works in New York City. His current exhibition at Theodore:Art, �Everything is […]
On elephant dick: A conversation between Todd Bienvenu and Cynthia Daignault
On the occasion of “Water Sports,” Todd Bienvenu’s solo show on view at yours mine & ours through May 14, friend and fellow painter Cynthia […]
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 Mir� to Mary […]
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 […]
Lunchtime dystopia: CON-Figuration at Postmasters
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Not far from the courthouse, wandering jurors like myself might happen upon Postmasters Gallery on Franklin Street during the mandated […]






























