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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Peter Campus, seminal artist of alternative media, returns to video in his series, Video Ergo Sum. Less conceptual than his earlier work, more personal and unabashedly beautiful, the piece reflect his ongoing investigation into the perception of self.
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Ida Applebroog’s paintings master the secret of psycho-drama: always in the midst of an action, their denouement is left to our imagination and fears. Patricia Spears Jones speaks with the painter about the everyday violence that surrounds pop culture.
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According to America’s longest running poet laureate, Robert Pinsky, “a poem’s medium is one human voice.” His Favorite Poem Project had the denizens reading out loud nationwide—a true vox populi.
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In Windward Heights, French Caribbean writer Maryse Condé transplants Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to the island of Guadeloupe. The novelist talks to Rebecca Wolff about literature and politics, politics and life.
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Robert Altman cornered the American zeitgeist with wildly diverse films — Popeye, Cookie’s Fortune and Short Cuts — over a long, steady career. He discusses process, market and vision with writer Albert Mobilio.
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Joseph Chaikin changed the face of theater with his Open Theater company and collaborations with Sam Shepard. The avant-garde director, who has garnered just about every theater award, speaks with Liz Diamond.
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza blends the taut gestures of modernism with the complex, ever-shifting organic designs of nature and the city in his achievement at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in Oporto in the summer of 1999.
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