The writer of Bunk on American hucksterism, racism, plagiarism, and why we believe what we want to believe.

“I couldn’t have gone to Woodstock because I’m not fit to be a nudist.”

This is an unedited raw transcript, made available as a BOMB Web Extra.

Kenneth Goldsmith is a trickster for sure, not just because his work takes place on the crossroads between legal and illegal, between digital and real life, between word and image, but because he’s a man who wears a lot of hats, metaphorical and otherwise. 

Read the following interview with the the movement’s original mastermind himself.

The New York Times dubbed painter Jack Whitten as “the father of new abstraction” in 1994. He speaks to Kenneth Goldsmith about his southern sensibility, the spirit of the ’60s, and the keys to artistic survival.