L.A. artist Kenny Scharf reminisces about living with close friend Keith Haring when they were students at New York's School of Visual Arts in the early 1980s. Haring, who died in 1990, is the subject of a major Broad museum exhibition that opens Saturday.
“My work makes me vulnerable because it displays my innermost intimate thoughts”: the multidisciplinary artist walks us through her introspective style.
This week, the editors celebrate Wayne Koestenbaum’s essay on the art of the fugue, “Notes on Not Now,” which appeared in the magazine’s pages in December 1995. Koestenbaum’s conversation with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will be released tomorrow as part of the online video series “Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists,” a copresentation of Artforum
and Bookforum.
“I am confused about the spirit of the age,” Wayne Koestenbaum confesses in his incandescent and hilarious he would likely prefer the word hysterical essay “Notes on Not Now.” Playing inside the form of the fugue both the musical composition and that muggy state of mind the piece muses on what, or who, signals the contemporary. In a culture that embroiders its currency with revivals and republications, comebacks and recirculations, is there no time not like the present? As ever, Koestenbaum’s measure of a moment is prompted by matters of language. Here, a scholar’s mention of “iconoph