The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
Dec 2007/Jan 2008
Art
Stephen Antonakos in Conversation with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
A few days before leaving with his wife, the writer Naomi Spector, for his retrospective at the Benaki Museum-Pireos in Athens, artist Stephen Antonakos welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his SoHo loft/studio to talk about his life and work. (The exhibit is organized by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, curated by Katerina Koskina and it will be on view from December 18, 2007 to March 9, 2008.)
Allan Graham in Conversation with John Yau
by John YauArt
Allan Graham welcomes Brooklyn Rail’s John Yau to his studio and home, east of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford
by David Levi StraussArt
"We all agreed that there is not a sufficient spiritual focus for the environmental movement," says Lamborn Wilson. "And without a spiritual focus, a movement like this doesn't generate the kind of emotional energy that it needs to battle against global capitalism."
Werner Kramarsky and the Art of Collecting
by Nora GriffinArt
“Collecting is a little bit like making love. You don’t know who your perfect partner is going to be. And you really don’t make a choice that way.”
Profile: Will Ryman
by Maxwell HellerArt
In his current exhibit Tuesday Afternoon, now on view at Marlborough Chelsea till January 8, 2007, artist Will Ryman translates commonplace urban scenes into playful but unsettling sculptural gatherings.
Traduttore Traditore
by Dore AshtonArt
“Surely you know,” said M. Croche, the dilettante hater, “that a genuine appreciation of beauty can only result in silence?”
