In the decade before he moved to
New York City, Cohen pursued a career as a fine arts journalist in his native
London, England, where he wrote for such publications as
Art Monthly,
Burlington Magazine and
Modern Painters, as well as for newspapers, including
The Independent and the
New Statesman. In 2000, he immigrated to the United States, and became a citizen there in 2008. From 2003 to 2008, Cohen served as art critic and contributing editor at
The New York Sun. From 2001 to 2010, Cohen worked at the
New York Studio School as its Gallery Director, and organized more than forty exhibitions of artists including Thomas Nozkowski,
Rackstraw Downes, John Newman,
Pat Steir,
Dorothea Rockburne,
Merlin James and William Tucker. At the school he featured regularly as a speaker in the public Evening Lecture program, conducting interviews with leading art critics and art historians in a series titled “The Craft of Criticism” where guests included
Peter Schjeldahl,
Michael Kimmelman,
Michael Fried,
Rosalind E. Krauss,
Svetlana Alpers,
Linda Nochlin,
Arthur Danto, Mark Stevens,
Roberta Smith,
Jerry Saltz and
Robert Storr. Many of the interviewees in this series later appeared on The Review Panel. ==Publications==