BonusEp. 16: Tamar Avishai interviews Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer

Since her arrival on the art scene in the 1960s, legendary art
writer Lucy Lippard’s work - searing, novelistic, crisp, and
endlessly curious - as well as her insights, activism, entrenchment
in the art world, and friendships have secured her role as one of
the most important minds in art criticism of her generation. Now,
at 86 years old, all of the stuff that she’s collected along the
way – photographs, drawings, relationships, grandchildren – is the
subject of her new memoir, or, actually, what she calls “Stuff
(Instead of a Memoir).” She joined me to talk about the book, but
also more than 60 years of writing about art in the way that
centered life. After all, “art,” she often quotes, “is what makes
life more interesting than art.” Art is the artists, the world they
inhabit, their shared cultural references, their shared
understanding of the art world and art history. Their human
experiences rendered in paint. The stuff they leave behind. Music
Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lacquer Groove,” “Hardwood Lullaby”
Episode Webpage:
https://www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/2023/12/20/lucy-lippard-art-writer