Working The Midnight Shift
New Episode of "Private Life"—Maya Lin reads Martin Filler!
My weekend visit to Los Angeles for the Steven Arnold celebration was a delightful whirlwind that included quick drive out to Palm Springs for the “Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, Spirit” exhibition. (Special thanks to artist Patrick Carroll for the fun roadtrip). The show features work by a number of friends, including my dearly departed Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. It was nice to see some of her stuff again—including a couple reliquary-assemblages in wall mounted vitrines, suffused with Gen and Jaye’s hair—but ever since I’ve been wrestling with subtly nagging ambivalence… It’s probably just that I miss he/r as a real person, and by contrast everything else feels like ephemera…
Continuing the L.A. theme, I’m happy to share that following my interview last week with architecture critic Martin Filler, the new episode of Private Life is out today, featuring the artist Maya Lin reading Filler’s essay “Ghosts in the House” (1999) about the architect Frank Gehry.
I hope you enjoy it!