Art
In Conversation
Jasper Johns with John Yau
On the occasion of his exhibition, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Paint, 1955-1965 which will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. from January 28 to April 29, 2007, the artist welcomed the Rail’s art editor John Yau to his home to talk about various subjects. Before the interview took place, Johns asked Yau not to ask him about the philosophy of the exhibition because he didn’t know what it was.
In Conversation
Katy Siegel and David Reed with Phong Bui
Just a few days before installing the exhibit High Times, Hard Times: New York Paintings 1967–1975, which features over 40 significant works by 30 artists and will be on view at the National Academy Museum from February 15 until April 22, 2007, curator Katy Siegel welcomed David Reed, who serves as the exhibit’s advisor, and the Rail’s Publisher Phong Bui to her home in Boerum Hill to discuss the work and artists included in this broad survey of experimental abstract painting.
In Conversation
Bill Jensen with Chris Martin
The Brooklyn Rail’s Chris Martin went to visit Bill Jensen in the Williamsburg studio complex he shares with the painter Margrit Lewczuk, their son Russell, and their dog Lucy. Two old manufacturing buildings are joined in a small courtyard with a big fig tree. The place feels like an old Italian villa in the middle of Brooklyn. Jensen has a major show of new paintings opening at Cheim & Read Gallery on February 15.
Constantly Blue Sky, Never a Cloud: On Rudolf De Crignis, 1948 - 2006
By John ZinsserNew York abstract painter Rudolf de Crignis died December 23 at Cabrini Hospice in Manhattan. He fell victim to a fast-acting brain tumor, inoperable and incurable, diagnosed just one month earlier. His friends and loved ones were shocked by the suddenness of his illness—and the swiftness of his death.
Marcia Tucker 1940–2006
By Carol BeckerI met Marcia in the late ’80s when I first started writing about art and artists, and in Marcia I found a wonderful friend.
The Press Preview of the New Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston
By Vicki GoldbergThe opening of a new museum building, which threatens to become a monthly event, is an opportunity for art journalists like me to get hold of something big to chew on (including, more often than not, croissants and salmon).
The Photographer Who Satisfied His Hunger
By Vicki GoldbergEverybody has a hungry heart, every photographer a hungry eye, and Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) had both. What his heart was hungry for was life lived in various shades of happiness; what his hungry eye scavenged from the city of Paris was just that.
A Critical Week in Chile
By David Levi Strauss, Adriana Valdés, Pablo Chiuminatto, Rodrigo Zúñiga, Sandra Accatino, Bruno Cuneo, and Ana María RiscoAt the end of October, Alfredo Jaar invited a number of artists and writers from all over the world to join him in Santiago, Chile for a Semana Crítica (Week of Criticism or Discussion).
