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Issue 103 Spring 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Elizabeth Murray and Jennifer Bartlett, painters and lifelong friends, reminisce about the ambitious New York art world of the 1960s and ‘70s.
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The two artists discuss Herrera’s significant contribution to the project of modernist abstraction, his use of profane materials—familiar, commonplace images—to “contaminate” the carefully circumscribed world of the abstract.
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Lincoln Perry’s mural at the University of Virginia re-envisions the building’s view of distant mountains as the acme of a kind of secular Pilgrim’s Progress.
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The American author of We Need to Talk About Kevin lives in London, a remove from which to consider our national psyche. Kevin juxtaposes the cracks in the polished surface of the American self-image with the interior fault lines in family life.
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The two poets are also essayists as well as translators. Weinberger’s latest book, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, traces the current administration’s controversial first term.
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These two New York natives discuss growing up in Brooklyn, the allure of the of the Museum of Natural History, and the perils of the autobiographical question in this instant classic from 2005.
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Musician, electronic composition innovator and MacArthur fellow Lewis has been documented in more than 120 recordings as well as numerous installations and written texts. He talks with Parker about where improvisation and politics intersect.
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The celebrated playwright and author converses with theater producer Morphos (behind, most recently, Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell) about his new book of short stories, A Primitive Heart. In all of Rabe’s work, the past haunts his protagonist.
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Critic and curator Downey queries the 2004 Turner Prize nominee about the excess of carnival and its inversion of power. Shonibare’s latest project, the film Odile and Odette, updates Swan Lake to reflect an ambiguous contemporary morality.
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