Features August 1986
Chuck Close
From a special issue printed in the Summer of 1986 entitled "New York in the Eighties, a symposium." Contributors include Hortense Calisher, Chuck Close, Arlene Croce, Clement Greenberg, Mark Helprin, Ada Louise Huxtable, Richard Koshalek, Mimi Kramer, Samuel Lipman, Jed Perl, William Phillips, Alan Rich, Larry Rivers, Barbara Rose, William Schuman, Gerard Schwarz, Hugo Weisgall, & Leon Wieseltier. With an introduction by Hilton Kramer.
Chuck Close was born in Monroe, Washington, in 1940. He was educated at the University of Washington, the Tale University School of Art, and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, in Vienna. He has exhibited widely in the United States and around the world since the 1960s, and his painting was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Walker An Center in Minneapolis in 1980. He lives in New Tork.
The notion that there is a New York art world, that is, one composed of native New Yorkers—or even long-term residents—is fallacious. A glance at a catalogue from any large group exhibition reveals a tiny proportion of artists born, raised, or for that matter educated in New York. A recent study by the New York Foundation for the Arts (the artists’ grant-giving organization which replaced Creative Artists Program Service as New York State’s major funder of individual artists) shows that...
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