ATOA Website ArchiveArtists Talk On Art first went online in October of 1995, courtesy of A. D. Coleman, in a section devoted to ATOA at Coleman's website, The B.Y.O. Café, subsequently renamed The Nearby Café ( www.nearbycafe.com). This ATOA web presence, donated by Coleman as a support service for ATOA, remained operative until the fall of 2001. Some of the transcriptions and digital-image files at our current site come from that project. ATOA wishes to thank A. D. Coleman and The Nearby Café for this contribution. |
The very core of what we're about is providing a forum for a running public dialogue among artists and others in the art world -- critics, curators, historians, dealers. As you can imagine, in more than twenty years' worth of such discourse, there's been a lot said.
This section of our newsletter at The Nearby Café we dedicate to providing samples of what gets said during our panels. Each of our panels is different, so, except for the diversity of the commentary, we wouldn't call any of these "typical." But they'll give you some idea of what you might hear if you joined us on a Friday evening; and, for those of you who haven't yet come by for a session (or who, for geographical reasons, just can't get here), we hope they'll serve as a surrogate for the actual experience.
A Personal History of ArtistsTalkOnArt
Lori Antonacci, multi-media artist and co-founder of Artists TalkOnArt, was Executive Director of the organization for ten years and President for 13 years. This reminiscence provides a first-hand summary of the project's conception, inception, and early years.
Here are two new panel excerpts:
"Why Make Art in New York?" 1979
Lori Antonacci, Jack Sonenberg, Martha Wilson, Diane Burko, Loren Madsen, Ted Thirlby
"Post-Modernists Just Wanna Have Fun,"1980
Edit deAk, Glenn O'Brien, David Salle, Tim Wright
And these, which appeared in earlier editions of this newsletter, from our archives:
"What Artists Want from Critics," 1978
Irving Sandler, Leon Golub, Philip Pearlstein, Jeff Perrone, Barbara Zucker, others . . .
"Humanism 2000: Fast Science, Fast Society," 1989
George Ennega, Kim Levin, Leon Golub . . .
These samples have been drawn from the fine book Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk That Changed Art, 1975-1990, a monumental compendium of public discourse about art -- panels, lectures, symposia -- during a transformative phase of art-world history. Edited by Judy Seigel, this thick volume (360 8-1/2x11 pp. worth of text) contains provocative horse's-mouth material from a number of sources, including (but hardly limited to) ATOA. Published by Midmarch Arts Press in 1992, it remains in print, and is a bargain. To order, write to:
Midmarch Arts Press
300 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10025
The price is $22.00 USD paperbound. The ISBN: 1-877675-05-9.
Our thanks to Cynthia Navaretta of Midmarch Arts Press for cooperating in the presentation of these excerpts.
This page last updated on November 22, 1997.
ARTISTS TALK ON ART PANEL SERIES: Critical Dialog in the Creative Arts has a NEW ADDRESS for its presentations! Panels are now held at: The Phoenix Gallery, 568 Broadway at Prince Street, Suite #607. This marks ATOA's 22nd year of one-on-one interviews and panel discussions with noted artworld personages. Fridays at 8:00. Doors open at 7:00. $6/$5 student-senior. Passholders FREE (Season pass $30 & up, with various perks).
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