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New Social Environment
Richard Serra Drawings: James Lawrence and Phong H. Bui
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 1pm est
As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, James Lawrence joins the journal’s publisher and artistic director Phong H. Bui for a conversation about Richard Serra’s drawing practice, as well as his exhibition Transmitter, currently on view at Gagosian, Le Bourget. In these daily lunchtime Zoom conversations, invited artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality with Brooklyn Rail staff. The talk will conclude with a reading by Micah Ballard from the fiftieth-anniversary expanded edition of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters. To join the online event, register at brooklynrail.org.
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Richard Serra, Hangar Drawing #13, 2021 © 2021 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
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Installation view, Rachel Feinstein in Florence, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy, June 9–September 18, 2023. Artwork © Rachel Feinstein. Photo: Ela Bialkowska
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Installation view, Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, Menil Collection, Houston, October 29, 2022–April 23, 2023. Artwork © The Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: Paul Hester
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 1pm EDT
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Chris Burden, Solaris, 1980, performance at Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica, California © 2022 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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