D. Eric Bookhardt
Convention Culture: New Orleans ’88
As summer steamed into oblivion it was tempting to say that nothing much was happening or had happened in the period before and after the Republican convention. Yet in its own way that media spectacle has by its sheer banal extravagance provided a kind of contextual frame around things, for matters both pointed and tangential.
Jacqueline Humphries
This interview was originally published in ART PAPERS March/April 2016, Vol. 40, issue 2. What would it be like to...
From Field Testing to Even Exchange: Mel Chin
D. Eric Bookhardt talks with Mel Chin about his current New Orleans projects Operation Paydirt and Safehouse.
Danger in the Liminal Spaces
Instead of pigments on canvas, the computer manipulates pixels in a monitor where the visible world is reduced to infinitely shifting variations on the screen.
The Music Box: A Shantytown Sound Laboratory
This review originally appeared in ART PAPERS March/April 2012. One of the most popular, if improbable, recent sensations in the...
Spaces: Antenna, The Front and Good Children Gallery
This review originally appeared in ART PAPERS May/June 2012. Cataclysmic experiences may yield unexpected benefits, but they never come easily....
Prospect.4:
The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
When the first in November 2008, it premiered as a large-scale event in the tradition of the São Paulo or...
Claire Tancons
Curator Claire Tancons talks with D. Eric Bookhardt in New Orleans, the “northernmost city of the Caribbean.”