An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, December 19, 2025
Many thanks to those who have contributed to Two Coats of Paint’s 2025 Year-end Campaign. About five weeks remain, and we could use quite a bit more help. For those who have not yet made a move, I urge you to make your tax-deductible contribution soon.
Dear Two Coats of Paint Readers, This week we launch the 2025 Two Coats of Paint Year-End Fundraising Campaign and, because you are a loyal […]
January news: Astonishing. Completely astonishing. Thanks to you, Two Coats of Paint raised about 20% more last year than in 2023, setting a record for our year-end fundraising campaigns. Due in large part to the Open House art and merch sale in December, this result affords us the resources to continue operating: to pay the server fees and the writers and to craft an online publication that matters to the NYC art community and beyond. Your donations and purchases, combined with our modest advertising revenue and your generous recurring contributions, will keep the lights on….
It starts again! The annual campaign—a reminder that survival in the arts isn’t just about making work, but sustaining the framework that allows it to exist and thrive. We know art is essential, and it needs financial support. Today, we launch the 2024 Two Coats of Paint Year-End Fundraising Campaign, because the simple truth is that without funding, the platform falters, the conversation dims….
Today marks the first day of the Two Coats of Paint Annual Year-end fundraising campaign. In 2023, with your generous support, we will continue to keep our vibrant and expansive conversation about painting going.
In May 2022, I will have been publishing Two Coats of Paint for fifteen years. Thanks to reader support, it’s been a long, strange and fruitful trip that all began when my studio was half an attic in a creaky Victorian house in Mystic, Connecticut…None of this would have been possible without the generosity of our readers. All told, in fourteen-and-a-half years, Two Coats has published nearly 4000 posts. With your continued help, well post 4000 more…
Now that the presidential election is over and 2020 is drawing to a close, we have begun our annual year-end fundraising campaign. Two Coats of […]
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Contributed by Sharon Butler / Hello November! There are plenty of shows opening this month, and today (November 15) is also the fifteenth day of […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / From�a recent exhibition organized to raise money for �Chef Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen’s relief efforts in Puerto Rico, I […]
Dear Readers, Two Coats of Paint�began publishing�in 2007, and this past year,�thanks to your generous �tax-deductible contributions,�ongoing�support from advertisers, and subsidized rent from the Two […]
Two Coats of Paint�began publishing in 2007, and this past year we saw tremendous growth�thanks to tax-deductible contributions�from more than 200�readers, support from new advertisers, […]
