BOMBLive!
Racktraw Downes by Phillip Lopate
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
Fall, 2002
The BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series

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Click here to read the transcript of this conversation.

“There is a constant struggle between sober accuracy and theatricality.”

—Rackstraw Downes

This podcast features a fall 2002 interview with artist Rackstraw Downes by author Philip Lopate at the New Museum, in which they discuss the landscape, British painters, and deliberate awkwardness.

Rackstraw Downes is a British painter and author whose obsessively detailed realist landscapes have earned him a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He’s had work published in The New York Times, Art in America, Art News, and The New Criterion, among others.

Phillip Lopate is an author and media critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications. His most recent essay collection, Notes on Sontag, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.