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 have also amassed a large, very personal and diverse art collection over more than twenty years. Through Sunday, October 28, a portion of their 900-piece […]

Best known as the hellish interview hub for hundreds of recent MFA grads, the College Art Association Annual Conference, which takes place February 21-25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is kind of like a geeky, intellectual version of Art Basel Miami. The schedule of discussions is dizzying and most […]

Here are some recent items cut and pasted from the Two Coats Twitter Feed. For readers unfamiliar with Twitter, “RT” indicates the item has been repeated, or “retweeted,” from someone else’s Twitter feed. The “@” symbol indicates that I’m referring to another Twitter-er. 1. TOP STORY: The doubter in my […]

 Found Art (Bowery) Unmonumental 470. Photo: Joy Garnett 2011. Here’s a repost of Joy Garnett’s excellent report on “Making a Living as an Artist: With or Without a Dealer,” the panel I participated in at the College Art Association last Thursday. Garnett’s report was originally published in the CAA Conference […]

Services to Artists Committee members Sharon Louden and Brian Bishop stopped by to check out “The Promotion Project, “ my presentation at the CAA ArtExchange last year in Chicago. This week in NYC, as the 99th College Art Association Annual Conference convenes, art students from across the country will be […]