Talk

The second presentation in the spring Public Art Fund Talks at The New School series, New York Stories continues to explore the ongoing resonance of radical work created by artists who first came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Watch the talk here.

Artist Rob Pruitt speaks about The Andy Monument. His homage to Andy Warhol stands on a corner of 17th Street and Broadway, just as Warhol did when he signed and gave away copies of Interview magazine. Pruitt’s sculpture adapts and transforms the familiar tradition of classical statuary, and depicts Warhol as a ghostly, silver presence: a potent cultural force as both artist and self-created myth. Public Art Fund director and chief curator Nicholas Baume, cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, and artist and writer Rhonda Lieberman join the artist in a conversation about Warhol’s lasting influence on art and culture.

Participants
Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator, Public Art Fund
Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, cultural critic, Distinguished Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate Center
Rhonda Lieberman, artist and writer
Rob Pruitt, artist