Art
DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
By Phong BuiThe painter David Humphrey welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his Chelsea studio to talk about the recent work, which will be featured at his one-person exhibit David Humphrey: New Paintings at Fredericks and Freiser (November 28 – December 22, 2012).
In Conversation
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”
“Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water.”
In Conversation
PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
While preparing for her forthcoming solo show Dante: The Way of All Flesh at fordProject (November 8 – December 21, 2012) Patricia Cronin welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Gowanus studio one late Sunday morning to view the new body of work and to discuss her art and life.
Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012
By Alex BaconI think every observer of contemporary art sometimes wonders if warmed-over modernism is the only possibility left for abstract painting. Once the dominant expression of both the historical and the neo-avant-garde, but now pursued only by a select few, the mode feels locked into an endless repetition of long-tired tropes like objecthood, flatness, and material specificity.
Marcel Duchamp Slept Here
By Francis M. NaumannDuring the winter of 2008 – 2009, the city of Buenos Aires hosted the first exhibition devoted to Marcel Duchamp held in Argentina, meant, essentially, to commemorate the artist’s nine-month sojourn there in 1918 – 19.
In Conversation
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil
Jonathan T. D. Neil and Robert Lazzarini met at the Brooklyn Rail’s headquarters in mid-October to discuss the artist’s newest body of work, (damage), which will go on view at Marlborough Chelsea on November 15.
