David Shapiro
The filmmaker on unpacking a forty-year friendship, turning the form on its head, and pizza as a madeleine to a lost city.
The filmmaker on unpacking a forty-year friendship, turning the form on its head, and pizza as a madeleine to a lost city.
The artist reflects on the personal and creative challenges that led to her first feature-length documentary, Instructions on Parting, which recently premiered at MoMA.
David Shapiro, whose show Money Is No Object was on view at the Sue Scott Gallery this spring, has created a group of vellum scrolls on which he has placed the bills and receipts and ticket stubs he’s collected over the course of a year.
“The piano speaks only of architecture, the violin speaks only of poetry.”
Artist Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and poet David Shapiro discuss the role of criticism and influence in art, ranging from abstract representations of space to why the Beastie Boys are more transgressive than the avant-garde.
