My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
—
Yayoi Kusama
Domain by Marcia Lyons
- Alfred Uhry by Paul Rudd
- Barry Le Va by Saul Ostrow
- Jane Dickson by Sylvère Lotringer
- Jon Lee Anderson by David L. Ulin
- Judy Davis by Liza Béar
- Lydia Davis by Francine Prose
- Peter Greenaway by Lawrence Chua
- Roger Guenveur Smith by Coco Fusco
- David Del Tredici by J. D. Dolan
Interviews
- David Armstrong by Nan Goldin
Artists on Artists
- I Dream I am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar by Agha Shahid Ali
- Already Dead by Denis Johnson
- A Man of Small Volume by Gabriella De Ferrari
- Resentment: A Comedy by Gary Indiana
- Four Poems by Gigi Marks
- Jeanne Dunning by Mimi Thompson
- Spirits of Manhattan by Kathleen White
- Domain by Marcia Lyons
- La Zona Roja by Mark Jude Poirier
- Decor #1: Bavaria by Mark Robbins
- Two Stories by Roberta Allen
- On The Tallest Hill In Rome by Roberto Juarez
- Black Maps by Sharon Horvarth
- In Bosnia by Steven Henry Madoff
First Proof
- Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark by Peter Strauss
- Daniel Harris’s The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture by Gary Indiana
- Reverend Ethan Acres by David Pagel
- Tina Barney by Marvin Heiferman
- Peter Boynton by Saul Ostrow
- Jim Butler by Shirley Kaneda
- The Wooster Group by Mark Magill
- Subjectivity: Ween, Michael Kroll, and the Dandy Warhols by Lynn Geller
- Royal Trux by Tod Wizon
- Tibor Fischer’s The Collector Collector by Jenifer Berman
- Deborah Eisenberg’s The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg by Thomas Bolt
- Klaus Kertess’s South Brooklyn Casket Company by Betsy Sussler
- Colm Tóibín’s The Story of Night by Patrick McGrath
- William H. Gass’s Finding a Form by Guy Gallo
- Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood by Betsy Sussler
Editor's Choice
Marcia Lyons, Domain.
See other works in the Artists at the American Academy in Rome Portfolio, On the Tallest Hill in Rome, edited by Roberto Juarez.
Related
“I Too Am …”
I dream of my house on the Gianicolo
near Villa Pamphili,
Sisters Lydela and Michel Nonó conduct performative interventions at their art space/home in Puerto Rico, using improvisation to process family memories and trace the wounds of colonialism.
“Right, they weren’t paintings, they weren’t colorful, but I kept doing them because that’s what would come to me. I could have stopped, I suppose, but to me they seemed like good pieces and they were in line with my thinking. Artists do what they think is important to them in their life span. That’s what they’ve always done—Rembrandt or Van Gogh or Picasso. They did what they did because they thought it was important.”
Originally published in
BOMB 60,
Summer 1997
Featuring interviews with Barry Le Va, Jane Dickson, John Lee Anderson, Lydia Davis, Judy Davis, Peter Greenaway, Roger Guenveur Smith, David Del Tredici, Alfred Uhry, and David Armstrong.
