5/1/08
6:26 AM
you gotta love it - it’s times like these when all the white-knuckled dealings with the frustrations of technology make it all worthwhile - for me ...
a month or so ago when ‘it’ was brought to my attention [by james carroll of new arts],
i had hoped that a windfall would allow some roaming around the desert southwest for a few days [like i used to do quite a bit back in the late 80’s and 90’s] and maybe end up in marfa, texas for a symposium on the writings of donald judd with some of what i consider to be the real ‘art brains’ of our time ...
i was lucky enough to spend time dialoging with some of these people over the years, and one way or another they profoundly effected the way i think about art today - and now a few of them will be under one roof - in marfa? - a town i know nothing about, except being the setting of the james dean movie ‘giant’ and later, the judd repository - which after seeing an article in architectural record in ‘92 influenced the studios i’ve renovated, owned, and lived in for over a decade ...
the sojourn would’ve been nice, but as april drew to a close i figured i’d just have to settle for reading some version of it somewhere ...
yesterday i learned they will be streaming ‘live’ from marfa public radio this weekend ...
you can learn more by visiting ‘chinati foundation’ ...
http://www.chinati.org/index.php
