A. Cerisse Cohen

Los Angeles-based writer, copywriter, and editor from Cincinnati, Ohio.

MFA (fiction) from the University of Montana. ​

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Current Director of Communications at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, where I write, commission, and edit copy related to art and artists. Former staff writer at Artsy.net. I used to write "Body Issues," a monthly column on art and the body. I'm interested in contemporary painting, stories of young women gone astray, and films about Hollywood.

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I love writing profiles, like this one on painter Yoora Lee...

...and interviewing artists and writers. You can find my recent conversation with Cleo Qian over at BOMB.  

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Here's a book review for The New York Times...

and a poetry review for Hyperallergic...

...and an essay on my love for Marcella Hazan.

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Read my reporting on the state of contemporary art in Los Angeles...

a profile of digital art phenom Refik Anadol...

and my attempt to answer the question: What makes an abstract painting good? 

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Follow me on Instagram @alinacohen

Get in touch: alinaCcohen@gmail.com

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A few Body Issues columns...

Maria Lassnig's Haunting Paintings Reflect How Women See Themselves

The Pleasures of Painting Skin

A Dance Class Helped Me See the Hidden Choreography of Painting

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...and some favorite articles from my time at Artsy:

At 84, Sheila Hicks Is Still Making Defiant, Honest Art

Inside Tschabalala Self’s Complicated, Meteoric Rise through the Art Market

I Thought I Knew the Art World—Then I Went to My First Auction

MoMA’s Major Donald Judd Show Captures His Unyielding Creative Vision

Why Mexican Modernism Is so Relevant Right Now

Dale Chihuly, Pioneering Glass Artist and Seattle Icon, Is Building a Major Legacy

The Bad Boy Artists of the 1980s Owe a Debt to Their Feminist Predecessors

20 Art Dealers on Their First Jobs in the Art World

The “Wife Guys” of Art History

A Radical New Artist Residency Rises at the Foot of the Swiss Alps
The Female Patrons Who Shaped Art History

Grappling with the Legacy of the Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol

Inside Kiki Smith’s Magical World

Why Sally Mann’s Photographs of Her Children Can Still Make Viewers Uncomfortable 

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Other favorites from around the web... 

The Artist Making Tapestries Out of His Paintings (WSJ. Magazine)

Speaking of the Female Gaze (The Nation)

Harris Markowitz: Snapchat Filmmaker Who Compares Himself to Kubrick (The New York Times)

Perrier-Jouët’s Maison Belle Epoque Dazzles in France (Galerie)

Why You Need to Know Estonian Artist Katja Novitskova (Galerie)

This Fall, Stripes Are In (at New York Galleries, At Least) (T Magazine)

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...and some book reviews:

Confessions of a Met Museum Info Desk Worker (Hyperallergic)

‘Fracture’ Is an Ambitious, Multi-Narrator Account of a Hiroshima Survivor’s Life (The Observer) 

Mary South’s Short Stories Delve Into the Internet’s Dark Corners (The Observer) 

With ‘Breasts and Eggs,’ English Readers Get the Chance to Fall for Mieko Kawakami (The Observer)

Andrés Barba Crafts a Disquieting Tale of Kids Taking Over in ‘A Luminous Republic’ (The Observer)

Tracing the Influence of 5 Female Writers Who Lived in London’s Mecklenburgh Square (The Observer)

Amina Cain’s Debut Novel ‘Indelicacy’ Builds a Fairy Tale Around Divorce (The Observer)

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