As at London’s Tate modern where you descend a wide ramp to enter and then look up at the art galleries, you enter the Bilbao Guggenheim down a wide arced staircase with shallow risers and look up into the atrium.
Rabbit Wind
The compressor is too noisy so they shut it off before you read. These twelve foot high pink and white inflatable bunnies slowly flatten. When inflated they are some terrifying bunnies. Once deflated they are easy to stomp on. They
Clarence Schmidt
I thought of this as a pilgrimage, in the late sixties, early seventies, to visit Clarence Schmidt and the tumult of his demesne in Woodstock, New York. He was the chief “outsider” artist, famous all over the country, his life
Eating Dog/ Talking Turkey
I The billboards stun me as we enter Communist China. Years before when I crossed into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie, before the wall went down, the sudden lack of commercial advertising I found relaxing though the absence of color
Sex is for Children
One really important thing Freud was wrong about: He was right to say that there is childhood sexuality, but he was wrong to assume that there is adult sexuality. Sex is where we go when we want to flee the
I Went and Saw Me Some Spiderman
The following was originally published at Pitchfork Media on Monday, May 20th, 2002. It has since been taken down, and I’mgrateful to William Bowers for permission to reprint it here. With the latest Spider-Man movie now gracing our theaters, ten
Curtis White: An Interview
conducted by Jeremy M. Davies and A D Jameson as part of “Writing’s Dirty Secret” WDS: Do you use specific materials when writing? And do you have any particular rituals? CURTIS WHITE: For each work I have a different set
Rosemarie Waldrop: An Interview
conducted by Jeremy M. Davies and A D Jameson as part of “Writing’s Dirty Secret” WDS: Do you write by hand, or do you use a typewriter or a computer? ROSMARIE WALDROP: Used to write in longhand, but now compose
Vanessa Place: An Interview
conducted by Jeremy M. Davies and A D Jameson as part of “Writing’s Dirty Secret” WDS: How do you write? Shorthand, longhand, typewriter, computer? VANESSA PLACE: Computer. Do you have a preference as to what kind? Prefer desktop, two 17″
Robert Ashley: An Interview
conducted by Jeremy M. Davies and A D Jamesonas part of “Writing’s Dirty Secret” WDS: How do you write? That is, do you write in shorthand, longhand, or do you use a typewriter or a computer? ROBERT ASHLEY: I should