Archive | March, 2009

An Interview With Robert Barry

by Catherine Spaeth on 24. Mar, 2009 in NEWS

The following telephone interview with Robert Barry occurred on March 21st, 2009
 

RB: What did you find interesting about my show at Lambert?
CS: I haven’t been in New York that long, this is now my 7th year, but I was in Ohio for a long,…

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"Extraordinary Critique": Peter Cowling of Art Connect Interviews Catherine Spaeth

by Catherine Spaeth on 13. Mar, 2009 in NEWS

I was quite flattered to be contacted by Peter Cowling for his second interview in this series for Art Connect. His first interview with Ruben Natal-San Miguel, of ARTmostfierce, makes a wonderful story of the role of photography in the post 9/11 year…

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Emptiness is the New Absolute: theanyspacewhatever and Ann Hamilton at the Guggenheim

by Catherine Spaeth on 06. Mar, 2009 in NEWS

“A giant wave,” is how Frank Lloyd Wright described the Guggenheim, its spiral sweeping away all corners and walls for an unobstucted vision. In 1959, sheer opticality was the Modernist Absolute and painting was its model. In 1971 Daniel Buren’s…

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