In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes that Cindy Bernard‘s poignant show at Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery evokes the far-flung community of […]
Writing
Bonnard: Folding together form, color and feeling
Roberta Smith on Pierre Bonnard at the Met: “Working simultaneously on several unstretched canvases tacked directly to the wall, he painted largely from memory with […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“I’m like some demented duckling stuck on this island”
Via artnet: “Another month, another art critic shown the door by a major paper. This time it�s Regina Hackett, longtime correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. […]
Michael Dailey’s “painterly landscape abstraction” in Seattle
In the Seattle P-I, Regina Hackett writes about old-school painter Michael Dailey, “On the West Coast, from Northern California to Seattle, a gestural kind of […]
Putin paints
Telegraph art critic, Richard Dorment gives Vladimir Putin a painting crit. “In that special category of world leaders who paint, Putin may not be the […]
The Westbeth retirement community
In The Villager, Bonnie Rosenstock writes about the Westbeth, the largest live/work facility for artists in the world, located in the far western edge of […]
“Every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it”
“In the mid-1930s, as her writing career was just starting to take off, Eudora Welty thought she might become a photographer. As a junior publicity […]
Art criticism: Alive and well
Village Voice critic Martha Schwendener, in a good piece on the state of art writing and criticism, suggests that, despite the bad economy, things are […]
The Limner
This week, The New Yorker’s short story, “The Limner” by Julian Barnes, is about an itinerant painter. Here’s an excerpt. “Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative […]
Death by blogging
In the NYTimes, Matt Richtel reports that blogging is stressful. “To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature […]
Finch flogs blogs
On artnet, Charlie Finch takes on art bloggers. “The proliferation of art blogs has taken all the day-tripper fun out of criticism by circle-jerking, recycling […]
