Ursula — Issue 18 The Air Itself

Curator Alexis Lowry embarks on a speculative inquiry into the largely unexplored friendship between two 20th-century titans, Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe. Both artists, in distinct yet unexpectedly aligned ways,engaged with color and abstraction.

Elsewhere in the issue, artist William Kentridge and novelist Colm Tóibín, in conversation for the first time, explore the myth of Orpheus as a symbol of art’s fragile power to reclaim the lost. The issue also features a never-before-published 1983 conversation between Jack Whitten and curator Henry Geldzahler about Whitten’s interest in African sculpture. Anna Maria Maiolino and Tania Riveratrace the materials, memories and gestures that have shaped the artist's visual language, in an excerpt from The Forgotten Her Story.

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