Richard Serra Drawings: James Lawrence in conversation with Phong H. Bui

Art critic and historian James Lawrence joins Rail Publisher & Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation on Richard Serra’s Drawings. We conclude with a reading from the 50th anniversary expanded edition of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters by Micah Ballard.

In this talk

Check out Richard Serra Drawings on view at ORDOVAS through December 17, 2021 →

Richard Serra: Transmitter is also on view at Gagosian, Le Bourget. More details here →

James Lawrence

Critic and historian of postwar and contemporary art James Lawrence is a contributor to the Burlington Magazine and Gagosian Quarterly. His writings appear in numerous gallery and museum publications around the world, including an essay alongside art historian Richard Shiff in RICHARD SERRA: DRAWINGS. WORK COMES OUT OF WORK (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2008) and most recently in Richard Serra Drawings (Ordovas Books, 2021).

Related

• Richard Serra Drawings (Ordovas, 2021) (ordovasbooks.com)

Phong H. Bui

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.

In the Rail: Phong H. Bui

Related

• Richard Serra in conversation with Phong H. Bui (Brooklyn Rail, June 2006) (brooklynrail.org)

More on Phong H. Bui

• phongbui.net
•  @phong.h.bui

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Micah Ballard reading.

Micah Ballard

Poet Micah Ballard is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW, 2019), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Selected Prose (2008–19) (Blue Press, 2020), Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books, 2019), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Bootstrap Press, 2017). He is co-editor for Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.

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