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JAMES BISHOP with Alex Bacon & Barbara Rose

James Bishop met with Alex Bacon and longtime friend Barbara Rose in New York for only the third interview he has given in his over 60-year career.

In Conversation

ANTHONY MCCALL with Jarrett Earnest

Anthony McCall returned to making art in the early 2000s after a 20-year break to further develop his iconic solid light works from the 1970s.

In Conversation

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
ELIZABETH JAEGER with Jarrett Earnest

Elizabeth Jaeger is an artist breaking away from the pack of shiny young things with life-sized porcelain and plaster sculptures, equally playful and funereal, coy and confrontational.

What to Do With the Ghost of James Lee Byars When He Is Dead and His Body Buried?

The room you dare not enter is golden and gleaming [The Death of James Lee Byars], both sunset and sunrise. I like the fact that the current incarnation is dated right there on the wall label as 1994 – 2004.

In Conversation

PHYLLIS TUCHMAN with Joyce Beckenstein

Art historian and critic Phyllis Tuchman orchestrated an exuberant collection of works, many of them seldom seen, for Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944 –1952 on view at Guild Hall in East Hampton through October 13.

A Tribute to
Marilena Bonomo
(1928 – 2014)

She was beautiful and inspired affection and trust. She would say, “Be strong.”

In Conversation

CAO FEI with Charles Schultz

Cao Fei is a Chinese artist from Guangzhou currently residing in Beijing. She is a multimedia artist whose work has been critically acclaimed and globally showcased since her nascent efforts as an art student in the late ’90s.

Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs

Israel Lund has always been interested in the innumerable translations images go through as they circulate through various networks, taking on diverse forms as they do so—including, but far from limited to, that of a zine, a Tumblr post, or a painting.

THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Avant-Garde Folk Art

Why oh why are we interested in celebrities? As a phenomenon, celebrity takes up an ever-increasing amount of cultural real estate. It rudely elbows aside far more dignified pursuits, has failed to launch much of substance from territory already annexed, and can hardly be said to appeal to our higher instincts.

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The Brooklyn Rail

OCT 2014

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