AGAINST SPACE

by James Hyde

Art

In our culture we find “space” everywhere. It is prevalent as a type of background noise in our speech and writing. Space is taught in geometry, physics, architecture, and even in psychology, with terms like “personal space” and “psychological space.” The (often subliminal) purpose of adding space to terms that stand-alone is to make those terms more passive, and to give the term’s user distance from the subject.

INCONVERSATION

LISA OPPENHEIM with Charles Schultz

Art

Lisa Oppenheim’s first one-person exhibition in an American museum took place this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Her second one-person exhibition at the Tanya Bonakdar gallery, A Durable Web, is on view through October 21, 2017.

INCONVERSATION

OKWUI ENWEZOR with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro

Art

When Joachim Pissarro and I began to organize our interviews with major museum directors—men or women who had decisively changed their institutions—from the very start we planned to talk with directors both in this country and internationally. Thus we interviewed not only Jeffrey Deitch, who had directed MOCA in LA; Philippe de Montebello of the Metropolitan; Alanna Heiss, and then Glenn Lowry, from MoMA; Massimiliano Gioni of the New Museum; and Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem; but also Sir Norman Rosenthal from the Royal Academy, London; and Mikhail Piotrovsky at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. In this, the eighth of our interviews, we talk with Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor who, after a distinguished early career as curator in the United States, organized exhibitions in Europe, where now he is director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich.

INCONVERSATION

EVA ROTHSCHILD with Tom McGlynn

Art

A work I always think about in these terms of a puncture is this piece I made in 2007, a huge, tangle on this spindly stand: in the studio, almost jokingly, it came to be called “Mr. Messy,” which is from a children’s book.

INCONVERSATION

CHRIS KRAUS with Jarrett Earnest

Art

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels: I Love Dick (1997), Aliens & Anorexia (2000), Torpor (2006) and Summer of Hate (2012), and two collections of essays, Video Green (2004) and Where Art Belongs (2011).

INCONVERSATION

JULIAN SCHNABEL with Phong Bui

Art

To me, to be able to make a physical fact that correlates with your impulse, with your real desire is something that can be unendingly interesting, or unendingly telling of itself. To the degree where you can’t seem to quite get enough of seeing it because it keeps retelling its own story. And maybe you look for that in the authenticity of a mark. Because once you start to give a reason as to why you’re doing something, it’s already a lie. Reason is the opposite of truth. Once you explain it you’re deconstructing it and making it into something else that might be a surrogate for that thing or trying to make it into a surrogate. But it just absolutely cannot be that thing.

FROMTHE
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear Friends and Readers,

by Phong Bui

Many of us, who are interested in progressive education and liberalism, are aware of ideas that can be materialized and put into practice for the welfare of people in every aspect of their lives: jobs, housing, schools, healthcare, and whatever else concerns their civil rights. We therefore wonder what has happened with what was once the most identifiable brand of American philosophy, namely pragmatism—a philosophy that is invested in matters of fact, and tangible results?

GUESTCRITIC

Introduction

by Arden Reed

I did something crazy—although it only came to look crazy in retrospect. Without initially intending to, I spent roughly eight years dwelling with the same painting—whether in person or in my imagination. A simple looking painting at that, Edouard Manet’s Young Lady in 1866.

CRITICSPAGE

The Eyes of Statues by Hunter Dukes

The Quick Hello vs. The Long Goodbye by Barbara Rose

Darwin's Slow Time by Jonathan Sachs

Before the Click by Eugenia Parry

On Time by Randy Gibson

Speed Living by Mark Andrejevic

Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963) by Blake Gopnik

La Chambre Clair by Paul Saint-Amour

Slowness by Chris Dercon

Sublime Boredom and the Drowsy Reader by Charles Baxter

Two Slowness-es of Democracy by Jeremy McKey