Art Criticism

In this interview with Kate Horsfield, Lippard, author of From the Center: Feminist Essays on Womens’ Art (1976), discusses the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics and her novel, I See/You Mean (1979). Lippard published a second anthology of her essays on feminist art, The Pink Glass Swan, in 1995. Interview by Kate Horsfield.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1979 and re-edited in 2003.

Laurie Anderson began as a downtown gallery artist, specializing in photography. She soon moved from creative to critical work as a writer for Art News and Art in America. She returned to the art world, making groundbreaking multimedia performance art. Her most famous work dates back to the early-to-mid-’80s and is marked by innovative use of technology in blending media-based and stage performance.

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, and founding member of the artist collective Group Material, which has organized exhibitions on themes such as the U.S.’s involvement in Central America, AIDS, education, and mass consumerism. Her exhibitions question traditional gallery and museum systems by asking “how is culture made and for whom?”

Interview by Michael Crane.

Ingrid Sischy was editor of Artforum in the 1980s and has been editor-in-chief of Interview magazine since the 1990s. In this interview with Robin White, Sischy discusses Artforum’s priorities, purpose, and goals. “It’s an intricate history where painting, sculpture, performance, video, and photography are extremely connected to each other. As the editor of Artforum, I would feel at great fault to not include the best and the most interesting questions of each because they affect each other, and artists’ choices are not made in a vacuum.”

Nathan Lyons has contributed to the field of photography as a critic, author, curator, educator, and photographer. He has published several books and catalogs, including Photographers on Photography (1966), Photography in the 20th Century (1967), Towards a Social Landscape (1967), Persistence of Vision (1968), and Notations in Passing (1974).

Interview by Alex Sweetman.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1978 and re-edited in 2007.

The sixth in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed here–gay activist and self portrait artist Lyle Ashton Harris, Chicano photographer and tourist Robert Buitron, Cherokee writer, curator, and video creator Rayna Green, photography critic and professor at University of California-Irvine Catherine Lord, and Chinese-American video artist Valerie Soe–discuss the role of photography and creation of culture. Moderated by Lucy Lippard.

The third in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed here—Jean Lamar, Hung Liu, Lorna Simpson, and Kathy Vargas—discuss their work and its cultural contexts. Moderated by Lucy Lippard.