Alanna Heiss: The Definitive Interview (Part 2)
By Daniel Rothbart
8 March 2012
I was living in London during the time that Radio Caroline became a beacon, not a virtual beacon but an absolute beacon, a real beacon / sound vehicle for untrammeled popular music. Since I left classical music, my interest was almost zilch with the possible exception of Max Neuhaus’ work. I was fascinated by this idea that, because you’re offshore, you could program your own radio without being tethered to the concerns of either the BBC in this case or in America the concerns of the, now we largely learned, be rut radio broadcast system. It became possible for me one time to go out on a boat with people who were dropping off a DJ or composer at Radio Caroline. …Read More
Interview with Marissa Soroudi
By Daniel Rothbart
2 March 2012
Marissa Soroudi is an artist who immerses herself in foreign environments and, much like an anthropologist, studies them. Artworks have taken her from the canopies of tropical trees in Vanuatu to life among cannibal Pacific islanders and recently to performing with burlesque showgirls. Through a personal methodology of contemporary art, Soroudi turns male projections and fantasies on their ear. …Read More
Interview: Inside The Mosh Pit With Vicky Allen Hanks
By Tony Zaza
15 February 2012
In the New York metropolitan art mosh pit, it’s hard being green and also a vegetarian, animal-rights activist, buyer-planner, conservationist and an artist. Vicky Allen Hanks even has to work for a living since she was not a trust-fund baby (a titanium white oil stick averages $25 a stick, Belgian linen is $180 a roll). We visit with her in her new home-based studio in Montclair, which is a third the size of her former loft space in Newark. Hanks’ art often depicts, in a cartoonish mannerism, struggles with the accoutrements of femininity in a male-dominated universe. But her current series of new paintings are infused with animal imagery. …Read More
Peggy Cyphers: A Studio Conversation with Robert G. Edelman
By Robert G. Edelman
14 February 2012
I was very influenced at the time by the Miocene fossils that I was finding on the beach in Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, where I pretty much spent my summers. A lot of those forms came out of the two basic growth structures of nature, a branching V-shape and anything that had the spiraling element to it, and the bifurcation, which was really the significant, conceptual source for me. The paintings were bifurcated, predellas, and the top panels on Mylar had an essence of a painting imagery or vocabulary that was of the moment; I thought of them as a living, breathing shape and surface. …Read More
An Interview with Ngak’chang Rinpoche
By Tchera Niyego
13 February 2012
Tchera Niyego: Can you tell me about your autobiography?
Ngak’chang Rinpoche: an odd boy is a four-volume . . . memoire of a period in my life from 1957 to 1975. Volume I—the crossroads—was published in the summer of 2011. The other three volumes will follow annually. It’s not a conventional memoire in any sense – because it’s not a full account of my life at that time. I describe it as a monothematic memoire – with the arts as the connective tissue of its narrative. It’s also—partially—a roman à clef . . . …Read More
Alanna Heiss: The Definitive Interview (Part 1)
By Daniel Rothbart
18 January 2012
I come from a family of musicians. My uncle was a composer who eventually became the Head of Composition at Julliard here in New York. He was one of two people who ran a fantastic program at Iowa which brought out everybody from Robert Wilson to John Cage. My uncle was a traditional composer. His daughters, who all went to good conservatories, were trained as violists and violinists. That was also true of my other cousins. In fact, almost all of my cousins and their children have made their living by playing stringed instruments. …Read More
Inside Out: An Interview With Mel Kendrick
By Daniel Rothbart
15 January 2012
“I saw a Pollock at a museum and it floored me that you could do something like that – it was the freedom. When I took art history in college, it became clear that you could study this work and talk about it. In the late sixties, art was like rock and roll but with a whole language and way of thinking and talking about it that was challenging.” -Mel Kendrick …Read More
The Fourth Dimension: An Interview With BabySkinGlove
By Daniel Rothbart
4 January 2012
On Friday, December 16, fifteen members of the notorious Brooklyn-based performance collective BabySkinGlove crowded Daniel Rothbart’s Midtown ARTERY office. Den mother Bailey Catherine Dorothea Edith Nolan lit a protective candle of Saint Clare of Asisi while her sisters in art purified the space with metallic glitter… …Read More
A Conversation With Barbara Rachko
By Daniel Rothbart
15 December 2011
Artist Barbara Rachko shares her perspective on studio practice, photography, personal loss and the creative inspiration she found in Mexican folklore. …Read More
Interview With Lawrence Joseph
By Daniel Rothbart
14 December 2011
American poet Lawrence Joseph speaks with Daniel Rothbart about his life, work and most recent book of poems Into It, published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. …Read More
Interview with Richard Humann
By Daniel Rothbart
6 December 2011
Artist Richard Humann discusses his rich and complex oeuvre with Daniel Rothbart. …Read More
