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Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists)
Her books are filled with insights into art world types and their relationships to the wider world.
At her home in Los Angeles, Rachel Kushner talks about “The Hard Crowd,” her new book of essays on cultural criticism, and her enduring interest in visual art.Credit.Clifford Prince King for The New York Times
By Jonathan Griffin
April 23, 2021, 9:01 a.m. ET
LOS ANGELES At one point in Rachel Kushner’s recently published novella, “The Mayor of Leipzig,” the narrator, an American artist, reveals: “I personally know the author of this story you’re reading. Because she thinks of herself as an art-world type, a hanger-on.”