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MFA Open Studios @ Brooklyn College and Parsons
Check out Brooklyn College MFA Open Studios this weekend. Twenty-nine MFA candidates, working in diverse media, will be available to field questions about their work […]
Two Coats of Paint Press book release: 117 GRATTAN
Two Coats of Paint Press has just released the artist’s proof for 117 Grattan, a book I created (with lots of help from Two Coats […]
Big thanks to our October sponsors
We’re a little late due to the storm, but we’d like to take a brief moment to finally thank October’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies […]
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: Q&A with Megan Marden, painter and creator of CT ArtList
Created by painter Megan Marden, CT ArtList is a promising new website that includes gallery listings, open call information, reviews and other information for Connecticut […]
Superstorm Sandy, Wade Guyton at the Whitney
What a week. Two Coats lost power for five days after Superstorm Sandy‘s spectacular and devastating landfall last week. The water rose to the backdoor […]
Weatherbeaten
Winslow Homer, On the Lee Shore, 1900. Created in his studio at Prouts Neck, Maine, where he lived and worked from 1882 until he died […]
DISCUSSION: Owning motherhood
Last week I moderated a discussion at the School of Visual Arts called “Taking Custody: The Double Life of the Artist Mother,” which was organized […]
Peter Scott’s two-part disappearance and James Siena’s Sometimes
Sam Jablon / Part two of Peter Scott’s exhibit “Pardon Our Disappearance” is on view at Sometimes (works of art), painter James Siena‘s small gallery […]
How to become an art collector
We all love Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, two friendly, culture-loving guys who not only publish ArtCat, The Opinionated Art Guide to New York, but […]
Katie Pretti: Ghost in transit
Abstract painter Katie Pretti’s latest exhibition at Neubacher Shor Contemporary is a beautifully expressive meditation on the feeling of being in transit. Her large canvases capture […]
Flayed, torn, and punctured at MOCA
After World War II, abstract artists, in the throes of an existential crisis unleashed by the atom bomb, began assaulting the picture plane, puncturing, stabbing, […]
Extending and reducing: Matthew Langley at Blank Space
“Atlas,” the first NYC solo show of Matthew Langley‘s handsome abstractions is on display at Blank Space in Chelsea through November 10. Since my undergrad […]
A well-lit billboard is not public art: Q&A with Adam Niklewicz
Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development is the mastermind behind City Canvas, a one-time, million-dollar initiative to bring mural-based public art created by Connecticut […]
Alex Paik: A solo show in Philly and a new gallery in Bushwick
Alex Paik, one of the founders of the Philadelphia art space Tiger Strikes Asteroid, is having a solo show this month, his first at Gallery […]
