Independent Features meets Douglas Coupland, the generation-defining Canadian author and artist whose latest series of iceberg paintings captures a mood of climate anxiety and personal transformation. In an exclusive interview with art critic Eddy Frankel, Coupland reflects on loss, the transatlantic flight that sparked his obsession with painting, and a creative shift away from technology towards an “addictive” new craft.
On March 5th, during a collegial evening at Alexander Gray Associates in Tribeca, a cross-generational panel of New York gallerists discussed the pressing questions facing dealers today. Now available to read, Alexander Gray, David Pagliarulo (David Peter Francis), and Lauren Wittels (Luhring Augustine) joined Independent’s founder Elizabeth Dee in a frank conversation about what it means to show up for their audiences, colleagues, and collectors.