David LaChapelle on Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and ‘The Dark Ages’
Warhol by LaChapelle “They wrote about Basquiat when he was 25 that he was finished, his career was done, over, and at 27 he was dead. He didn’t know that that would pass. They told him that the paintings he and Andy did together were horrible. Now people make fortunes out of it, they never […]
First and Foremost, Christopher Wool is a Painter
And If, 1992 enamel on aluminum 52 x 36 in. (135 X 90 cm. First and foremost, Christopher Wool is a painter and when it comes to the discourse on the viability of painting, he shows us that the medium is indeed very much still alive. Excerpt from a Wright Auctions text on […]
A Conversation with Ulay – Founding Father of Performance Art
Ulay. Imagine a combination of a charismatic personality, a subversive anarchist, a bright mind and a daring body. The artist Ulay, better than anyone has explored limits of body and soul and by doing so he has become one of the founding fathers of performance art. MG: Lets start from the very beginning. You were […]
Keiichi Tanaami on “Pop Art”
“I have never thought of myself as a pop artist. However, when I was young there was a time when I was influenced by the methodologies and techniques of pop artists, such as Warhol.”
Where You Weren’t When We Were: SMILER
Thatcher was out, the false promises of Blair’s lying and callous maw was in. The 80’s and 90’s were different.
A Handful of Dust and The Futility of Glass: An Interview with David Campany
“You have to be prepared to look in the ‘low’ places in our visual culture as well as the ‘high’. You have to be a rag picker as much as a connoisseur”.
An Interview with Tom Lovelace: ‘this way up’
“Materiality has always been a strong thread in my work.”
Interviewing Francis Bacon: Unreliable Oral History
Bacon felt very strongly about phraseology. He erased words like ‘very, very’, or ‘well’, and ‘you see’, but added words like ‘accident’ and ‘artificial’.