5/22/2023 0 Comments But Worse Will Come by C.C. Adams![]() ![]() ![]() ROBERT STORR: The only place we could have put it is on the balcony overlooking the garden. We thought for a while about putting it in but decided just to stick with heads.īA: How did you decide against the nude? I mean, it was the most surprising image in the catalogue. This is the earliest painting, 1967–68- Big Self-Portrait.īA: Is this where you feel your work begins?ĬC: Well, I did a nude just before this which I consider part of my mature work. And, in the essay that follows, art historian Richard Shiff provides a critical overview.īROOKS ADAMS: So we’re opening with the big grisaille portraits from the late ’60s and ’70s, right?ĬHUCK CLOSE: Uh-huh. ![]() Photographer Tina Barney shot the proceedings for Artforum. As the 120-odd portraits in Chuck Close’s full-scale retrospective found their places on the walls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art this February, Brooks Adams visited the installation in progress and talked with the artist and the show’s curator Robert Storr about the work, its development, and the issues surrounding its presentation. ![]()
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