Contributed by Sharon Butler / Once I finally dragged myself away from political news, there was a lot to learn. Here are links to some […]
Tag: Quick study
Quick study: A new day
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here is a selection of art articles I’ve gathered from sites around the internet this week, including Painters on Painting, […]
Quick study: The quiet city
Contributed by Sharon Butler / How’s everyone doing out there? The streets of New York have calmed down in the past few weeks, with far […]
Quick study: How the world is changing
Here are some articles and online projects that I thought might interest Two Coats readers. I’ve been somewhat productive in working on an artists’ book […]
Quick Study
Reading links: NYC art fair cheat sheet, last chance for Rochelle Feinstein�s show at the Bronx Museum, Mira Schor�s lifetime achievement award, Allen Ruppersberg at […]
Quick study
Contributed by Sharon Butler / The semester is over and I�m finally catching up on the news. Here are links to some of the stories that caught […]
Quick study
This edition of “Quick study” includes good news about how the arts drive economic growth and bad news about MoCA curator Helen Molesworth. Also: Grant […]
Quick study
Stories about painting in the news include: the return of a stolen Degas, why portrait painting is making a comeback, and the Russian intrigue in […]
Quick study
According to Hauser & Wirth, abstract painter Jack Whitten has died�at 78. In 2013 NYTimes review, Holland Cotter�praised Whitten for his restless energy: With a […]
Quick Study
The 2016-you’re-killing-me edition: Paul D’Agostino’s art round up at Brooklyn Magazine,�Ivanka’s art collection (and�Playboy bunny style), heartbreaking story about�opioid addiction, and an update on�the�$50�Stock Club […]
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A Friday reading round-up that includes Art Forum on Mira Dancy and Sarah Peters, ArtNews on the Independent, Roberta Smith on Sharon Horvath, Martha Schwendener […]
Quick study: Greg Allen's @TheRealHennessy tweet paintings, MESS, working conditions, more
Greg Allen is making paintings again, and this time he’s painting them himself. According to AnimalNY, Artist, critic and our go-to appropriation expert Greg Allen has turned joke […]
Quick Study: Enough already, what’s next, a new painting blog and more
Who knew painting (and art writing) still had the power to evoke such outrage? Some artists and writers, unhappy with the provisional and casualist approach […]
Quick Study: Turner Prize, Miami, Zwirner, and, yes, surfing
In line with recent custom, the one painter shortlisted for the Turner Prize–Lynette Yiadom-Boakye–was passed over. Via NYTimes: “The artist Laure Prouvost, whose works combine […]
Quick Study: Chelsea snaps, reading links
As I traipse around the galleries, catch up on the backlog in my InBox, and read the other bloggers via my new Feedly RSS reader […]
Quick study: Bushwick, Venice, Hong Kong
The seventh annual Bushwick Open Studios takes place next weekend, May 31-June 2! Thousands of artists will be participating, and a quick search of the […]
Quick Study: Pocket Utopia’s first anniversary, the new neighbor
This Friday, 6-8pm, our favorite gallery, Pocket Utopia, will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on the Lower East Side with “Club Pocket Utopia,” a big […]
Quick study: Waltemath, Gatson, Kennedy, a few opportunities, and lots of links
If you’re in the northwest, check out “Latencies,” an exhibition of Joan Waltemath‘s sublime abstract paintings at Elizabeth Leach in Portland, OR, through April 27, […]
Quick study: tART Collective, Lincoln, SCHEMA, Shiflett, and a job in Baltimore
Rachael Gorchov, a member of NYC feminist group The tART Collective, recently told me about “Collectively Assembled: 28 Visits, One Show,” an exhibition project created […]
Quick study: Abstraction is Queen
Picasso Black and White at the Guggenheim includes loads of paintings I’ve never seen before–even in reproduction. Featuring large, unpainted swaths and urgent brushwork, the […]







































