Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, April 19, 2024
Two Coats of Paint Conversations In 2020, Two Coats of Paint began using the Clubhouse phone app to present live discussions about art and the art world. Our goal was to provide interesting art content for studio listening. Last year, we began to archive the edited conversations in a podcast […]
Contributed by Franklin Einspruch / Among several of my quixotic projects is to farm a heretofore neglected front yard for vegetables. It is, as they say, a work in progress. I am in charge of this project, and yet I am not. Much depends on my scant knowledge, my incomplete […]
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 that I’ve been observing for the past few years, have been wondering why this type of work has gotten so much ink and pixels. Abstract […]
Which artists painted these images of the Madonna and child? When and where (what country) were they painted? Correct answers will be announced as soon as we have a winner. Please email answers to twoccoatsofpaint@gmail.com with “Pop Quiz” in the subject area. Good luck! Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 […]
I love Franklin Einspruch‘s snarky take on Odd Nerdrum’s paintings at Forum Gallery. Warming to Nerdrum’s new work, Einspruch reports in the NY Sun that the Norwegian painter studied with Joseph Beuys. Who knew? His review ran in April and the show is already down, but here’s an excerpt and […]
Extensive multi-post photo coverage of the Miami art fairs is underway at Joanne Mattera Art Blog. Unlike other bloggers who cover Miami, Mattera’s posts are heavily weighted toward painting and visual trends rather than video, conceptual or installation projects. “There were some recurring themes throughout the fairs: spider webs–indeed, webs, […]
Art Critic Jerry Saltz wants you to paint him a Gerhard Richter. On his Facebook page, Saltz offered either $1,000 or a blow job (plus the cost of materials) to any artist who makes him a painting that looks exactly like one of Richter’s abstract canvases. “You can sign your […]
“Collecting With Your Eye, Not Your Ear,” discussion organized by Barry Hoggard and James Wagner. Image courtesy Winkleman Gallery. #class, a sprawling and innovative project at Winkleman Gallery in New York, closed last week. Artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton had turned the gallery into a �think tank� for guest […]
Thanks everyone for coming to the art blogger panel discussion. I’m sure the audience had more to contribute, so the panel questions (we didn’t get to all of them) are posted on the event blog. Feel free to post your own responses. If you post them on your own blog, […]
