Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends

If you could talk to any artist, dead or alive, whom would you choose? What would you ask? I know from hard-won experience that artists can be maddeningly difficult to talk to. While some—Frank Stella and Jim Dine are two who come to mind—are on good terms with the...
William Norton

William Norton

“My work is all about shadows and voids,” says William Norton, a tall, rangy, bearded man in his early 60s, whose seven-foot-high “drawings” on plexiglass panels were inspired by trips on the subway to and from his job at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “These are...
Jamie Hamilton

Jamie Hamilton

Jamie Hamilton Five years ago, while rock climbing in upstate New York, Jamie Hamilton fell about 45 feet and lived to tell the tale. “I landed on my butt, and I bounced to my feet,” he recalls. “The impact literally caused me to bounce.” He calls the incident ”a...