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Squeak Carnwath: No ordinary objects
In the Contra Costra Times, Laura Casey reports that Squeak Carnwath’s paintings are not the type of creations you slap on your wall because they […]
NY Times Art in Review: Dana Schutz and Andr� Ethier
(NOTE: This is Two Coats of Paint’s thousandth post! To read our very first post, from May 9, 2007, click here.) “Dana Schutz: Missing Pictures,” […]
Roberta Smith on art theory: “It’s not useful to most people”
Roberta Smith recently visited Rail Consulting Editor, Irving Sandler, at his home to talk about her life and work. Here’s my favorite part of their […]
Picasso: “Unless your picture goes wrong, it will be no good”
In the NY Times Roberta Smith writes that the show of late Picasso paintings at Gagosian proves that, in the main, Picasso only got better. […]
New flatfile project grows in Brooklyn
Kris Graves Projects and Pocket Utopia are teaming up to create new a works-on-paper flatfile project in Brooklyn. The flatfile, which will be on view […]
Post-gallery situated practice: Crockett Bodelson and Sandra Wang
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Novella Carpenter reports that Crockett Bodelson and Sandra Wang have become street dealers. “Bodelson, who tends to wear big metal […]
Andrew Cranston’s dense claustrophobic rooms
In the Guardian, Jessica Lack continues her series on contemporary artists with Andrew Cranston, whose dense claustrophobic paintings are inspired by rooms in great works […]
Get Well Soon, Nicole Gagne
“The artists at the condemned Queens building where a staircase collapsed on top of jeweler Nicole Gagne last week did what they do best Tuesday […]
Tony Fitzpatrick’s gallows humor
The other night I revisited the Hector Babenco film Ironweed, based on William Kennedy�s 1984 novel about Francis Phelan, a one-time baseball pitcher turned alcoholic […]
Matvey Levenstein and Phong Bui
While preparing for his one-person exhibition at Larissa Goldston Gallery, on view from through May 9th, Matvey Levenstein stopped by Brooklyn Rail HQ to talk […]
Last chance: Geometrics II
From Joanne Mattera Art Blog:“For “Geometrics II,” curator Gloria Klein selected 12 artists from the Geoform website. Geoform is a fabulous online resource dedicated to […]
Lois Dodd: Like a house on fire
Alexandre Gallery presents six recent large-scale paintings that octogenarian Lois Dodd painted during the final years of the Bush Presidency. Each depicts the image of […]
Marilyn Minter: It’s about maintaining the integrity of the ideas
Marilyn Minter’s work examines glamour and its seedy underbelly through a juxtaposition of photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs which hone in on the moment where […]
Carl Plansky: “The more I see contemporary painting distrust feeling, the more feeling I put into my painting”
In the Wall Street Journal, Lance Esplund reports that Carl Plansky’s paintings of flower bouquets — some nearly seven feet tall — threaten to leap […]
