In the 1950s and ’60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to several extraordinary, then-struggling artists: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. For just over a decade, this street of dilapidated sail-making lofts and maritime warehouses […]

Michele Oka Doner is an artist whose work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production includes sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She has created numerous permanent art installations throughout the world, including Radiant […]

Veronica Roberts is the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. She joined the Cantor in July 2022 after holding curatorial positions at the Blanton Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum. Day Jobs, an exhibition she curated, will open at the Cantor in March 2024. Conceived as a corrective […]

Ann Reynolds teaches art history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently completing a book entitled Imagining an Altogether, a history of intergenerational relationships among New York artists and writers that were shaped by shared, if heterogeneous, commitments to Surrealism and its legacy, primarily through a love of film. She is also the author of Robert […]