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THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
A Body of Work
By Alexander Dumbadze
A little more than a year ago I gave a lecture on Jack Goldstein, an artist synonymous, for most, with the Pictures Generation and the advent of postmodernism in the visual arts.
In Conversation
FRANK OWEN with Alexi Worth
Frank Owen has the most interesting studio I know. When I first visited, back in the late 1980s, the place was a cross between a visionary architect’s office and an automotive design shop.
In Conversation
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ & DORON LANGBERG with Jarrett Earnest
Why don’t we just accept that art history is one long, looping conversation in a haunted house, with so many vivid voices belonging to currently dead people? Is it weird that we still talk to them?—and to each other?—and about them and each other?
In Conversation
MICHAEL TAUSSIG with Nathlie Provosty and Jarrett Earnest
The anthropologist, author, and Columbia University professor Michael Taussig is best known for his book My Cocaine Museum (2004) and his many decades living, on and off, in the Putumayo region of Colombia.
In Conversation
ZHANG HUAN with Charles Schultz
By Charles SchultzZhang Huan's solo exhibition at Pace Gallery, Let There Be Light (through December 5), includes the largest ash painting Zhang’s made to date as well as a new series of ash paintings that use the language of Braille to transcribe western texts including the Bible and the Star Spangled Banner.
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