On Sunday, “Prison,” Peter Halley’s first exhibition in the Northwest, opens at Disjecta, a non-profit space in Portland. The site-specific installation is a digitally generated […]
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Bill Jensen lightens up
In his new work, Bill Jensen gets reductive, working in a large-scale triptych format with a limited palette. Here’s the James Kalm Report coverage of […]
Stopping time: On Kawara and Danica Phelps
On Kawara and Danica Phelps, two single-minded artists obsessed with documenting life, are on view in New York this month. David Zwirner has over 150 […]
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Two Coats of Paint is a member of the Nectar Ads Art Network, which includes the powerhouse art blogs Hyperallergic, Colossal, Art Fag City, and Rhizome. I urge […]
Gallery 764: In the Artist’s Studio
This week the Metropolitan Museum opened the renovated American Wing, which features twenty-six galleries on the second floor. Using coved ceilings, skylights, and architectural detailing, […]
The thoughts and scrawls we leave behind
In Bushwick, artist and Italian literature Ph.D Paul D’Agostino organizes projects in his apartment that usually involve selected artists’ interpretations of obscure reading materials. His […]
Can anyone paint spots like Damien Hirst’s assistants?
Apparently so. In Roberta Smith�s NYTimes article about the Hirst spot extravaganza, she reports that the paintings are “nothing but fields of enamel dots, smooth […]
Abstraction in early 2012: Allen, de Oude, Hathaway, Peterson, Sable, Sanin
In geometric abstraction, doesn’t it seem as though the brushstrokes are either masked and tightly drawn, or loose and drippy these days? At Deborah Brown‘s […]
The blind leading the blind: Predictions for 2012
Seven predictions for 2012. 1. Arts funding will increase, although artists will be required to consider how an art project can contribute to the economic […]
UES gallery crawl: Hirst, Wall, Bontecou, Picabia, Dodd
Before checking out galleries on the Upper East Side the other day, I met Brece Honeycutt at the burger joint in Le Parker Meridien, where […]
Guilty: Kicking off 2012 in Bushwick
After spending most of December in Washington, DC, I was happy to be back in Bushwick on New Year’s Day drinking mimosas at Jason Andrew’s […]
Quick study: Damien Hirst edition
In a Radio Times interview this week, David Hockney (who was just appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Merit by the Queen) ripped […]
Joan Mitchell Foundation announces 2011 grant recipients
Congratulations to the 2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipients! 25 grants of $25,000 each are awarded annually, by nomination only, based on “artistic merit and […]
Upcoming: Joan Mir� Retrospective at NGA in May 2012
I was at the National Gallery a few weeks ago where I took this snapshot of Joan Mir�’s breathtaking triptych Mural Painting I�III (1962). It […]
How long does it take Brice Marden to make a painting?
In this 2009 conversation with Harry Cooper, curator at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, that was recorded at Brice Marden’s (Manhattan) studio, Marden […]
