At 4:18 PM on November 2, 2022, Carolyn Zick, the artist and renowned and pioneering art blogger, passed away at her home in New London, Connecticut.
At 4:18 PM on November 2, 2022, Carolyn Zick, the artist and renowned and pioneering art blogger, passed away at her home in New London, Connecticut.
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Contributed by John Mendelsohn / In 1971, Mike Robinson (as he called himself then) and I were in Adja Yunkers’s drawing class at Barnard College. At the end of the semester, Yunkers asked the class, “Who is going to be an artist?” Walter and I raised our hands, and were […]
Contributed by David Carrier / Over the years, I got to know Graham Nickson, the splendidly original English figurative artist who ran the New York Studio School and recently passed away, visiting his studio and writing a catalogue essay for him. Starting in the late 1980s, I lectured now and […]
The painter Anne Russinof, who lived and worked in Brooklyn for many years, died early Sunday morning, January 26. According to friends, the cause of death was cancer. Originally from Chicago, Anne was a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from Pratt […]
Contributed by David Carrier / Just to the left of my writing desk is a painting of a magnificent tree with bright orange blossoms. Below it is a now faded postcard of a drawing of Barbara Westman, who died earlier this year at age 95, and her husband Arthur Danto […]
Two Coats of Paint has recently learned of the death of Gordon Fraser, a talented artist and art blogger who penned The Blind Swimmer, of a heart attack after undergoing a series of treatments for colon cancer.

Contributed by Patrick Ryan Bell / Tucked away in a cul-de-sac on Attorney Street in the Lower East Side and committed to ambitious exhibitions, Frisson […]

Contributed by Jac Lahav / Timothée Chalamet, the 30-year old actor, recently rage-baited internet audiences by saying he wouldn’t want to work in “ballet or […]

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” an article that recently appeared in the winter issue of October, artist Josh Kline points out that art has long been curated, funded, and institutionalized by the very galleries and collectors who profit from it and the schools that train its participants, without necessarily serving the majority of artists. Most NYC artists are familiar with the story Josh is telling, as many have weathered previous market downturns. Some can remember the 1989 stock market crash, the devastation of 9/11, and the 2008 recession. Now, after what has become a years-long rout, even A-listers like Josh feel compelled to rethink the cost of maintaining a NYC studio as the market for their work has changed.
