Award-winning NYC blogazine with a focus on painting
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In September, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Scott Wolniak, a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily as a painter, with occasional forays into sculpture, video, and curatorial projects. Scott has taught for many years in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. The outdoor world, from the vastness of the American West to the defiant weeds that push through cracks in city sidewalks, have shaped his aesthetic since childhood.
Contributed by David Carrier / Anyone old enough to remember Claude Levi-Strauss’s books on structural anthropology or Rosalind Krauss’ famed structuralist account of sculpture, all richly suggestive sources of art theory, will likely appreciate “Building Models: The Shape of Painting,” currently up at the The Milton Resnick and Pat Passolf Foundation and curated by Saul Ostrow. The central question he poses is how you construct a painting. In the 1960s and 1970s, when painting was beleaguered and political experimentation was a related concern, tribes of New York artists were consumed with answering that question.
In Artforum, Michael Wilson reports that Dan Walsh’s artistic approach is so clear and careful that perhaps it’s better discussed in terms of gradual […]
Torsten Slama, “Walt Whitman Memorial Refinery/Walt-Whitman-Gedenk-Raffinerie,” 2005, India ink on illustration board, 28 x 40 inches. Collection Beth Rudin de Woody, New York Rebecca Cochran […]
In ArtForum Joanna Fiduccia reports that during Amy Sillman’s residency in Berlin, she produced a zine that included images plus text excerpted from writing by […]
In ArtForum this month, Annie Buckley picks Jim Isermann�s elegant psychedelic paintings, which have graced the walls, floors, and ceilings of galleries, hotels, universities, stores, […]
In ArtForum Joseph R. Wolin reports that Matthew Fisher loves a man in a uniform. “His faux-na�f paintings depict soldiers dressed in fanciful costumes and […]
David Nolan features work by Serban Savu this month. Savu, part of a group of artists from Cluj, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, […]
In ArtForum Karen Kurczynski reviews three recent sixtieth-anniversary exhibitions dedicated to CoBrA, at the Mus�es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels (where the new […]
In Artforum, critic Sean Carrol singles out Anders Oinonen’s show at Houston’s CTRL Gallery this month. When I was in Miami last year, Oinonen’s work […]
In ArtForum, Nicole Eisenman talks to Brian Sholis about her new work. “During the past fifteen years,” Sholis writes, “New York-based Eisenman has created a […]
Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City writes that ArtForum�s Editor in Chief Tim Griffin “offers up more art speak and over quoted scholarship in the […]
London-based Mie Olise Kj�rgaard, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a finalist for the 2008 John Moores Painting Prize and will be participating in the […]
Twenty years after Gary Hume emerged onto the British art scene with his Door Paintings, Modern Art Oxford presents the first survey of the series. […]
In ArtForum, Bob Nickas reviews Philip Taaffe’s current retrospective at the Kunstmuseum-Wolfsburg in Germany. “It’s not so easy to recall that first hit, that immediate […]
In ArtForum, Saskia Draxler recommends Stephan Willats’s show at Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin. “This exhibition consists entirely of conceptual drawings produced between 1983 and […]
“Magnus Plessen,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY. Through Jan. 12. �I have asked myself where the image is, is it in front of me […]
“Jules de Balincourt: Unknowing Man’s Nature,” Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY. Through Oct. 13. “Unknowing Man’s Nature” is one of Artcal’s top picks, […]
Jennifer Allen reports in ArtForumt: “Painter Marlene Dumas has won Germany’s prestigious D�sseldorf art prize, worth �55,000 ($74,875). As the APA and DPA report, the […]
In ArtForum, Linda Yablonsky reports that the “Elizabeth Murray Praise Day” at the Bowery Poetry Club, sponsored by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, “provided a […]
