Artist Robert Irwin, who designed the Getty Center's Central Garden and led the first original art form to emerge from Los Angeles, has died at age 95.
Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) and Bruce Conner (1933–2008) had that kind of telephone talk marathon a listener feels present at, despite time and place making such an experience impossible. It endures in its strangeness, having been imitated by a photograph of Conner’s telephone dial, to which Defeo responded by a sending of one of his body photos with the dial stuck on: about which he writes: “I had become the telephone.” But we hear it, savor it, and applaud Bruce Conner for memorializing it five years after her death.
The first-ever West Side Fest is bringing free admission to museums, parks, performing arts centers, and cultural institutions in the west side of Manhattan
'The Lights,' by acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner, is a poetry collection but so much more part of a project that makes us question how we experience time.