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Loie Hollowell with Amanda Gluibizzi

I visited artist Loie Hollowell at her bright Queens studio on a bristlingly cold February day. We were meeting to discuss her ten-year survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and her solo exhibition of works on paper at Pace Gallery in Chelsea.

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Albert Oehlen with Mark Hudson

German artist Albert Oehlen began painting as a teenager and has continued working throughout the decades, moving from figuration to abstraction in a manner that makes the distinction less meaningful than it is for most painters. Oehlen’s interest in artificiality and the formal processes of layering and of experimentation underlie his recent work.

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Pat Steir with Pepe Karmel

For over three decades, Pat Steir has been one of the leading painters in America. Her abstract waterfalls, with their rivulets of paint descending through cosmic spaces, discover unsuspected possibilities in the vocabulary of gestural abstraction, and reveal a profound spiritual dimension to contemporary art.

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Kay WalkingStick with Patricia Marroquin Norby

Kay WalkingStick is currently enjoying a moment of tremendous recognition, with multiple solo exhibitions and international group shows on the near horizon. If her stars have aligned, it’s not because WalkingStick has done anything different. As the artist says in the interview that follows, she hasn’t changed.

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What Does It Feel Like To Write A Poem?

This is what I think: that one feels nothing while writing a poem and only sort of thinks. It’s a high-wire act. Maybe. And the feelings associated with a poem, long or short, are entities from before and after the writing of the poem—which may well contain them—but one doesn’t, even cannot, experience them while writing.

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