Art
In Conversation
JOHN ASHBERY with Jarrett Earnest
For half a century John Ashbery has remained a solid contender for the title of “greatest living poet.” For much of that time he also wrote art criticism, first for ARTnews, and the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune, New York and Newsweek.
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MARCIA HAFIF with Phong Bui
Although Marcia Hafif and I have known each other since 2005 (we met at one of Robert Ryman and Merrill Wagner’s legendary annual holiday parties, and I have since had the pleasure of visiting her SoHo studio a few times), it wasn’t until a day before the opening reception of her recent exhibit, The Italian Paintings, 1961 – 1969 at Fergus McCaffrey (April 21 – June 25, 2016), that I was able to view this particular body of work.
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Bill Jensen and David Hinton
The friendship of painter Bill Jensen and poet/translator extraordinaire David Hinton grew out of a shared interest in Eastern philosophy, Chinese poetry and painting, and other related subjects—and it is a friendship that seems to deepen as the years pass.
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JOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz
John Houck lives in Los Angeles and works out of a studio that previously housed a sizeable weed growing operation. Last Winter, five of Houck’s photographs were featured in the New Photography exhibition at MoMA, and in April he is showing a new body of work at On Stellar Rays.
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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE with Ann McCoy
William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments opened April 21 – 22, 2016, in Rome. On a 550-meter-long, ten-meter-high section of the Tiber embankment wall between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini, eighty figures, pulled by power washing from the grime on the walls, depict Rome’s greatest victories and defeats from mythological times to the present.
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MARK DION: Mourning is A Legitimate Mode of Thinking
By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveMark Dion is the elder statesman of critical nature studies—of art that thinks, specifically about nature as a projection and extension of man’s self-interest.
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ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
With sculpture as a primary medium, Gormley’s work explores the relationship of the human body to space and time, emphasizing the body as place rather than object.
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INGRID ELLIOTT with Laila Pedro
Curator Ingrid Elliott collaborated with Galerie Lelong on Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana [Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard], an exhibition that offers an alternative take on modern art in Cuba.
![Amelia Peláez, <em>Bandeja con frutas (Sandía) [Tray with Fruit (Watermelon)]</em>, 1941. Oil on canvas in original frame. 28 x 35 inches. Private Collection, Miami. Photo: Sid Hoeltzell. © Amelia Peláez Foundation. Miami. Courtesy Tresart, Miami.](https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/17127/Bandeja_con_fruta_(sandias).jpg?w=200&q=80&fit=max)
