Our second installment of summer fiction is “The Teddy Bears,” an amusing short story written by artist and arts writer Laurie Fendrich about a mid-career artist whose […]
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Fiction: The Unknown Masterpiece [Honore De Balzac]
Today marks the beginning of the Two Coats of Paint fiction column, a special summer section featuring short stories about artists, collectors, galleries, and other matters […]
Art and Fiction: Petrushevskaya and the painter’s whirl
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If they are successful, artists transport those who view their work to a different visual and psychic environment that nonetheless […]
Art and Fiction: Rachel Kushner�s molten optimism
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / The view that the 1970s were culturally under-appreciated is now so firmly entrenched that they no longer are. With respect […]




















