Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Once I finally dragged myself away from political news, there was a lot to learn. Here are links to some stories this month, from Cy Gavin’s powerful painting on the cover of ArtForum, bike riding in NYC, new graffiti, opportunity listings, a two-part online painting […]
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, The New Yorker, NY Times, artnet, Hyperallergic, NPR, and Dance Theater of Harlem. At the end, look for a link to a Mother Jones article […]
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 fewer sirens, although the neighbors still hang out the windows to make a racket at 7pm, celebrating the quietly heroic medical personnel and other essential […]
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 project during lockdown, but I have trouble tearing myself away from the news and trying to make sense of it all. –Sharon Butler George Packer […]
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 the Hammer, new privately-owned and operated museum-quality art spaces, and the Rothko Chapel renovations. —— It�s the first week in March and art fairs are […]
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 my eye: Ceramic Christmas trees, NYTimes critics pick their favorite art books of 2018, John Yau ODs on Mark Grotjahn, Sept Rodney on “Soul of a […]
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 Wood�s retrospective at the Whitney, Russian collectors’ hankering to join in the global art world, the future of art fairs, a mural in Parkland, Joan Baez is a painter, and one of my […]
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 Ghent. �Also,�some�reviews are out for��Songs for Sabotage,”�the New Museum�s 2018 Triennial.
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 career grazing the 50-year mark, Jack Whitten is still making work that looks like no one else�s, which is saying something, given the flood of […]
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 for Artists.
