Visual Art

'Do You Think of Yourself as Brave?': One Artist Asks Another, Who Doesn't Answer

by Jen Graves • Dec 13, 2010 at 11:16 am

From Baldessari's Kissing Series, 1975

In the Paris Review, the painter David Salle puts questions to the conceptualist John Baldessari. Such as:

If continuing to make art meant that someone you didn't know would be physically hurt, would you stop?

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