BAM to host Brooklyn-based painter, writer David Salle
Brooklyn BookBeat: Launch of Salle’s Essay Collection ‘How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art’
Renowned painter David Salle distills contemporary art to its essentials in his new series of essays “How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art.” The Brooklyn-based artist will visit the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Nov. 1 to discuss the collection with Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review.
In the essays, Salle strips away complicated theory and describes contemporary art in the plain language artists use when talking to each other in order to explore such wide ranging subjects as “the what and the how” (how an artist gives form to an idea), “originators and enforcers” (artists who invent ideas versus those who distill and perfect them) and how artists understand their work as a conversation with art history.