Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. (Openings).

Sitting on an awards panel this summer, I was shown the work of a husband-and-wife artist team, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, and liked it quite a lot. It had things you might want from art: intelligence, novelty, wit. I wonder, now, how those qualities will weather under the stress of a different time. That may be an unfair pressure to apply to work made at a more benign moment, but for me it is inescapable in talking about the McCoys: A couple of their pieces were some extent inspired by the World Trade Center, so I can't write about them without thinking about it.

In fact, it was ...

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