Abstraction Takes a Bow Ninety years of knockout art and strong community

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Ye old website has been updated with some new images, and info about ongoing and upcoming activities. www.sharonlbutler.com

The books have arrived 😀Get your copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther on April 25 at Art Cake open.substack.com/pub/sharonbu...

Please explain to me why people say they feel "humbled" when they win awards. Isn't more like they feel proud, empowered, relieved, happy, validated, grateful...?

Quit beating yourself up about being rejected every year -->

No need. He’s definitely a St. Bernard!

My childhood dog was a St. Bernard and he looked just like Picasso’s dog. In fact, maybe that’s why my parents got a St. Bernard in the first place. They loved Picasso 🤔

Also, I’d like to see one of those talking dog Ai accounts but the dog reviews art

Are you sure that’s not a St. Bernard?

Newsletter, April 1, 2026 Tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on; Green Wall series, Shakespeare; Goethe; Edvard Munch; "Abstract by Definition," curated by Saul Ostrow, American Abstract Artists; Residency news; more

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Remembrance: My conversation with Pat Steir I met Pat back in 2010 when she was doing a site-specific installation at Sue Scott Galllery on Rivington Street. Here's my report, which was originally published in The Brooklyn Rail.

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Wrote something about the Whitney Biennial the other day —>

Common People (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia

I am reminded of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...

(Sound of crying in my beer)

Well I guess that’s it. After nearly 20 years, Two Coats of Paint has officially used up all our storage space on our server. I knew this day would come.

Finally NYAA sees the light! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...

Go huskies 🐕

Doomscrolling 3-D IRL: The 2026 Whitney Biennial Contributed by Sharon Butler / The Whitney Biennial 2026 has a knack for knocking the human project, wistfully and ruefully examining the past, and planting dread about the future. Curators Marcela…

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Went to the Whitney Biennial yesterday. Look for my take later today @twocoatsofpaint.com In the meantime, here’s a killer Helen Frankenthaler painting I saw on the 7th floor 💥

‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

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Newsletter, March 3, 2026 Artists Talk, making art during wartime, last chance for exhibitions at 68 Prince Street Gallery and CLEA RSKY, upcoming Resident Artists and Open Studios, "Street Corner Conversation" review, more

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"There is a Cover-Up Afoot": Sen. Whitehouse Unravels Disturbing Trump, Epstein, and Russia Ties YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

@whitehouse.senate.gov Ties it all together on the Senate floor youtu.be/1V8oE9PAO9k?...

I’m worst than most, but I’m working on it

Also, how are you backing up the 30,000+ pictures on your phone? I thought so!

Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud! Ariel Hahn, a librarian friend, wrote an essay* about the damage to the climate caused by cloud storage for libraries and archives. She wasn’t giving solutions so much as suggesting it was a proble…

Artists! Wake up! All those images, blogs, websites, videos, social media accounts are contributing to the expansion of cloud aka data centers! Also: Windows is moving toward putting all your back ups in the cloud so forget about using your own hardrive talkingpicturesblog.com/2026/03/04/h...

Next book project?

Thank you to all the shovelers! We pedestrians love you for it ❤️

Thank you, Claude, for finding a solution!

Actually, the best method is to copy from a cloud folder on the computer and then paste into a folder in the external drive. Meta data intact!