‘The Studio Is the Only Other Woman’: 5 Artist Couples on What It’s Like to Share a Calling

Art history’s most famous love stories are cautionary tales. Think: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A new exhibition in New York offers a considerably less tumultuous vision of artistic romance. “Couples,” at Eric Firestone Gallery, features the work of 26 artist-partners (through May 2) who explore material, color, and form in a complementary fashion. CULTURED brought together five duos featured in the show to answer questions about what it’s like to mix the professional with the personal. Each artist was instructed to answer without peeking at their partner’s responses, revealing just how compatible they really are.