A collection of essays about contemporary art, artists and culture. Please Wait by the Coat Room includes essays on sculptors of color Luis Jimenez and John Outterbridge; a section on Korean abstract painters who were considered part of the Dansaekhwa movement (which has been translated as "monochromatic painting"); a section on "second generation Abstract Expressionists" such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu.