The more you read interviews with the late Franz West, the more there is to love about him. Today we have this excerpt from an interview conducted by MoMA photographer curator Roxana Marcoci on the occasion of the museum’s “Comic Abstraction” exhibition in 2007. Ms. Marcoci asks about the theatrical element of his Adaptives, plaster sculptures that people could pick up and manipulate, and that sets him off on a pretty interesting tangent. Read More
To go along with the news this morning that the Cy Twombly Foundation has purchased an Upper East Side mansion that will be home to an education center and museum, here are some pictures of the building’s interior at 19 East 82nd Street, courtesy of Judson Realty. Read More
On Tuesday, a foundation set up by the artist Cy Twombly before his death in 2011 purchased a mansion on East 82nd Street for $27.5 million. It plans to turn the five-story building into “an education center and small museum to celebrate the artist’s work and burnish his reputation,” according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More
The Artists Documentation Program, a branch of the Menil Collection, has opened the doors on its impressive collection of artist interviews and placed the whole archive online. Previously only available to curators and art historians, the online project was funded in association with the Whitney and the Harvard Art Museums’ Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. Read More
