Summer 2022
Memoirs of a Poltergeist: Part 2
The second installment of a short story by Venita Blackburn.
An Eye on the Market: Mary Rozell
Mary Rozell is the global head of the UBS Art Collection and the author of The Art Collector’s Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Acquiring and Owning Art (Lund Humphries, 2020). For this installment of our Eye on the Market series, Rozell speaks with Gagosian director Jill Feldman about collecting and the art market, her development of the art-business master’s program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the history and future of the UBS Art Collection.
Performance Space
Jenny Schlenzka and Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda of Performance Space New York speak with the Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab about the storied institution’s radical shifts and current programming.
Fashion and Art: Pieter Mulier
Pieter Mulier, creative director of Alaïa, presented his second collection for the legendary house in Paris in January 2022. After the presentation, Mulier spoke with Derek Blasberg about the show’s inspirations, including a series of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, and about his profound reverence for the intimacy and artistry of the atelier.
Rebecca Cammisa
The filmmaker sat down with Carlos Valladares to talk her chief inspirations, the countercultural radicality of being a nun, and the shifting landscape of the documentary.
Francis Bacon: The First Pope
Richard Calvocoressi tells the story of Francis Bacon’s first image of the pope, ‘Landscape with Pope/Dictator’, c. 1946.
Game Changer
Annie Flanders
Aria Darcella pays homage to the founder of Details magazine, enumerating the many ways in which Flanders changed discourses around fashion, nightlife, and photography.
Feliza Bursztyn
Salomé Gómez-Upegui profiles the trailblazing feminist sculptor Feliza Bursztyn (1933–1982). Prompted by this Colombian artist’s first retrospective outside her home country, at the Muzeum Susch, Switzerland, in 2022, Gómez-Upegui sheds light on Bursztyn’s vital role in Colombia’s cultural and literary community.
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire: Theaster Gates
In this ongoing series, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has devised a set of thirty-seven questions that invite artists, authors, musicians, and other visionaries to address key elements of their lives and creative practices. Respondents are invited to make a selection from the larger questionnaire and to reply in as many or as few words as they desire. For this installment, we are honored to present the artist Theaster Gates, whose Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel opened in London on June 10.