Art
RAIMUND ABRAHAM (1933-2010)
By Lebbeus Woods, Peter Noever, and Massimo ScolariRaimund Abraham was the architectural conscience of our time. His words and his works insisted on a humanist basis of architecture, one rooted equally in the abstract inventions of the mind and the sensuous materiality of the body.
A SALUTE TO MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
By Carol Becker, Kate Gilmore, and Tehching HsiehIn Marina Abramović’s current retrospective at MoMA, Abramović performs every day, all day, for the entire duration of the exhibit. Visitors are invited to sit with the artist, across a table and stare into her eyes. I have already seen this exhibit three times and will surely go again, but I will not sit with Abramović.
AFTERTHOUGHTS TO A CONVERSATION WITH SASHA SUDA
By Willibald SauerländerI should like to publish some afterthoughts to the lively and often even charming article which Sasha Suda has written about a rather casual conversation the two of us had in October 2009 in my studio at Munich, and which has now been published in the Brooklyn Rail.
A SALUTE TO CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
By Jonas Mekas, Irving Sandler, and Patricia CroninSo much has been said about the “essence” of things and men that you’ll forgive me if I’ll say a few words in praise of the surface.
In Conversation
MARK GREENWOLD WITH JOHN YAU
On the occasion of his new exhibit Secret Storm: Paintings 1967-1975 (March 17–April 17, 2010), which for the first time, brings together this group of provocative and controversial early paintings as well as watercolors and drawings from the period, the painter Mark Greenwold welcomed Art Editor John Yau to the DC Moore Gallery to look at the works, and to discuss his life and work.
In Conversation
SHIRLEY JAFFE WITH RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN
Can the same painting give us difficulty and joie de vivre? If you have ever encountered a painting by Shirley Jaffe, you know the answer to this question.
In Conversation
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD WITH IRVING SANDLER & JOHN YAU
Just a few days before the artist’s opening reception of her recent exhibit Errätus at Galerie Lelong (March 18 – May 1, 2010), Ursula von Rydingsvard welcomed Consulting Editor Irving Sandler and Art Editor John Yau to her Brooklyn Studio to view the works and then discuss her life and work.
David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui
In addition to the artist’s other interview with Art Editor John Yau about his then current exhibit of working drawings and color studies at Peter Blum SoHo (January 13-March 6, 2010), David Reed stopped by Art International Radio to talk further with Publisher Phong Bui about other issues concerning the growth of his paintings.
Greetings, Friends! (with apologies to Roger Angell)
By Michael StrausArt mavens, hail to you, it’s Armory Season / And time to write rhymes without rhyme or reason.
Martin Wilner WITH PHONG BUI
On the occasion of his exhibit A Life in Days, on view at Sperone Westwater from January 8 to March 20, 2010, the artist Martin Wilner dropped by Art International Radio to talk to Rail Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.
