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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Sculptor Brian Tolle is known for his meticulous replications of historical objects—Jefferson’s writing desk—and installations of archetypal hearths and utopian architecture. His latest project is a monument to the Irish Hunger in Battery Park.
>>>The Frances Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. For over 30 years painter Robert Mangold has used a simple, primary vocabulary to explore a range of visual, aesthetic and physical relationships in an eloquent testament to the legacy of abstraction.
>>>In Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed first novel The Intuitionist, the elevator becomes a metaphor for religion, race and upward mobility. In John Henry Days he weaves a chorus of voices that recount forgotten moments in American history.
>>>The poems in The Tether, Carl Philips’s newest collection, are spare, elegant meditations on the fluid and unchartable nature of connection, whether between lovers, falconer and raptor, or line and poem.
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Kenneth Lonergan won Best Picture and Best Screenplay at Sundance, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his astounding debut feature, You Can Count on Me. Rachel Kushner speaks with Lonergan about his latest project.
>>>Novelist Guillermo Arriaga wrote 36 drafts of Amores Perros, the award-winning Mexican film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is highly emotional, with cathartic rather than gratuitous violence.
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Frontman for Guided by Voices, this 42-year-old ex-schoolteacher and Ohio-based object of international hero worship just happens to be a regular guy who obsesses over experimental and psychedelic pop music.
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William Eggleston once again reveals the beauty in the mundane through his new body of photographs, which capture everyday scenes of Arizona and Los Angeles. Eggleston has a major retrospective on view at the Whitney in New York through January 25.
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