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With a Bang: An Interview with Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin as the King, 1972. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Eleanor Antin began her career as a stage actress and painter-cum-assemblagist in the late 1950s. She was inspired by the...
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Narcissism and Pleasure: An Interview with Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer, still from Privilege, 1990, 16mm, 103 minutes. © Yvonne Rainer. Courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of Chicago. The following is excerpted from Interviews on Art, a...
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How Original Are You?
Copyright © Museo Nacional del Prado “The old idea of making things” So there I was, sprawled across the floor of my living room in south London, happily riffling through the newspapers on my iPad (I’m...
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Schlemihls and Water Sprites
We’re all probably familiar with Muggles and mugwumps, and happy to point out a Catch-22, knowing very well which books these come from. We’ll casually talk of utopia or pandemonium or describe...
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Michael Stipe, R.E.M., and the Anxiety of Influence
Michael Stipe’s “Infinity Mirror.” (Photo: Toby Tenenbaum/Brooklynvegan.com) There was a time when art was cool—books, movies, music, paintings, sculptures—and you could love what you loved, proudly...
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Nico: Beyond the Icon
Still from Nico, 1988. Nico believed in fate, and she was fated to be an icon. In her youth, she was the femme fatale of Andy Warhol’s Factory and the spectral singer of the Velvet Underground. Later...
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Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire
I always imagined that I would have a life very different than the one imagined for me, but I understood from a very early age that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. —Leonor Fini...
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Staff Picks: Good Guys, Goose Fat, and Ghosts of Mars
Kristen Roupenian. Photo: Elisa Roupenian Toha. There was a time when I found online dating apps addictive. It was a guiltless game: arbitrarily judging prospects by a series of photos, a far-fetched...
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A Mosh Pit of One’s Own
Fea. Photo courtesy of Blackheart. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf writes in 1929. The same applies to being a musician, in that Woolf really...
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Has Henry James Put Me in This Mood?
A collage by Dennis, reflecting her interest in how interior spaces relate to feminism. Made in 1971 in her loft on Grand Street. Courtesy of Donna Dennis. Ted Berrigan was the first in the circle of...
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