Susan Bright
Susan Bright, previously the assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London), is an accomplished freelance curator and writer. She talks with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching about her second book Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography.
Art in the Airport
Tyler Meier and Joyelle McSweeney open up the terminals, concourses, and gates of two American airports, where Lichtenstein and Smithson loom large.
Solos
Matthew Friedberger, one half of the sibling nucleus of The Fiery Furnaces, talks about about his new recording series, Solos, in which he uses six different instruments to create six different albums, and his perversely scrupulous compulsion to leave audiences unsatisfied.
Shale and Sandstone
Jack-of-all-trades Douglas Kirby takes us on a trip through time, space and Shale and Sandstone, his new solo release under the name From a Fountain.
Splendid Derelicts
Poet Anna Journey follows “a kind of Elysian Ur-tricycle” through Catedral vegetal, Mexican Surrealist Remedios Varo’s sepiascape, finding the place where canopies establish, fracture, and slip for the willing traveler.
Mario Tama
Mario Tama talks about his five years spent photographing post-Katrina New Orleans and his newly released book, Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent, in a conversation with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery.
Oh and O
Markus Popp’s sonic project Oval has been credited with pioneering the influential genre called “glitch.” Now, after nearly a decade of silence, Oval has returned with a decidedly new musical direction. At Length speaks with Popp about this metamorphosis and previews a new track.
Everything in Motion at Once
Painter Roger White corresponds with us about beauty, detachment, the Brita filter, and all that can’t be distilled about painting.
Marc Baruth
The art of history combined with contemporary photographic assemblage is explored with photographer Marc Baruth in a discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery.
Notes on Aura Portraits
Anna Von Mertens walks us through her hand-dyed and stitched interpretations of the Mona Lisa, Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, and others guided by the principles of aura photography.
4D
At Length talks to musician and composer Matthew Shipp about his new record 4D, his influential work as curator of the groundbreaking and genre-smashing Blue Series for Thirsty Ear Records and his often difficult relationship with the jazz establishment.
James Pomerantz
Photography inspirations, the Caucasus and treading the halls in school, are the subject of photographer James Pomerantz‘s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their latest feature for At Length.
Finch (Original Soundtrack)
At Length joins novelist Jeff Vandermeer and rock band Murder by Death’s Adam Turla in a conversation about the latter’s haunting soundtrack to Vandermeer’s darkly fantastic detective novel, Finch, the third and final volume in his award-winning Ambergris Trilogy.
Ruins
Antique processes, collaboration and the art of Ruins, are the subject of photographer Beth Dow’s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their inaugural feature for At Length.
The Whole Tree Gone
Dynamic pianist and composer Myra Melford talks to At Length about her new record, The Whole Tree Gone, and pushing the boundaries of geography, genre and gender.