Art
Postcard Chat
between Yves Berger and John Berger
John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic. His son, Yves Berger, is a painter who is represented by Art Space Gallery, London.
In Conversation
GLENN LOWRY with Joachim Pissarro, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, and David Carrier
When we began this ongoing sequence of interviews with museum directors, we knew that we wanted to talk with Glenn Lowry. To be a director of any museum is a complex, highly conflicted job. To be director of MoMA involves special pressures, which seem unique to the flagship American museum dedicated to collecting and reflecting on modern and contemporary art.
In Conversation
HANK WILLIS THOMAS with Allie Biswas
Hank Willis Thomas has spent the last 10 years using the history of advertising as a primary reference. Working directly with print adverts, the artist uses his technique of “unbranding”—where every trace of advertising information is erased, leaving only the original image—to challenge perceptions of identity, commodity, and representation.
THEORY AND CRITIQUE:
The Raw and the Cooked
By Dave Hickey
Recently, a lot of people have been whining on about me being anti-academic. Not so. In fact, I am an academic. I read difficult books in difficult languages, I write difficult essays about difficult art. I taught school from age 50 to 70. So I am an academic by any definition. My problem is that I belong to the academic species but not to the art tribe of academics.
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
A Socialism of Creation
By Luis Camnitzer
About once every decade I decide to confront the issue of whether it’s possible to teach art or not. My immediate, passionate, and unexamined inclination is to say: yes, it’s possible.
In Conversation
CHRIS LARSON with Phong Bui
I’ve followed the artist Chris Larson’s work ever since my visit to the Twin Cities in February 2013 as the McKnight Visiting Critic. Chris was one of the four 2012/2013 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship recipients. My trip began with a prolonged visit to his immense studio in St. Paul, where he had built a monumental structure which housed interiors made for his video works.
A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M.
By Mary Ann CawsIf philosophy takes in everything, it was all here on this night-morning. Of course, you might say to yourself, why just a night of philosophy, why not, perhaps, a day and a night, or several of each, or what about a life of it?
In Conversation
DEAN LEVIN with Alex Bacon
Over the past year Dean Levin and Alex Bacon have been meeting regularly to discuss the evolving nature of Levin’s work, and the ideas behind it. The following is a composite of some of the issues they have discussed. Levin’s first solo exhibition in New York City, “A Long, Narrow Mark” runs May 3 – June 7, 2015 at Boesky East.
In Conversation
DAVID SALLE with Hunter Braithwaite
I met David Salle in the crowded lobby of the Joule Hotel on Main Street in downtown Dallas. He was in town for the opening of Debris, a large show of his paintings and ceramics on view through August 23, 2015, at the Dallas Contemporary.
