The following interview was originally published in Art21 in January, 2013.
I was down at the Hyde Park Art Center this last December. The doors to the main gallery on the first floor were closed when I arrived but I could sense movement behind them; a crack of light beneath the door was regularly interrupted by shadows, making me... +
Rachel Whiteread. “Untitled (Stair),” 2001.Judith Brotman. “Natural Selections,” 2005. Leaf, thread, trimOx scapula with a divination inscription from the Shang Dynasty, dating to the reign of King Wu Ding. (Wikipedia).Euclid’s Elements: Book I, Proposition 1: wherein an equilateral triangle is made using the radii of two equal circles.Excerpt from Dan Graham’s“Homes for America 1966,” published in Arts Magazine, December 1966-January 1967.House of an unknown Chinese author in an abandoned cottage in Chongqing, China. Image courtesy of Croatian Times, 2010.Gordon Matta-Clark. “Bingo,” 1974.Rachel Whiteread. “Untitled (Paperbacks),” 1997. Plaster and steel. 15 x 16 x 20′ as installed at MoMAJonathan Saffron Foer. “The Tree of Codes,” 2010. Inside view.
The following essay was originally published by Art21 in November, 2012.
Walter Benjamin allegedly had an opportunity to leave Germany when Axis borders were still somewhat porous. Had he chosen to flee then, it’s likely he would have survived the war. To do so, however, he would have had to abandon his personal library and for that reason chose to stay behind. While I’ve wondered what books... +
