Ursula: Issue 1

by Randy Kennedy (Editor)

The inaugural issue of Hauser & Wirth’s art magazine Ursula , a new quarterly magazine published by the gallery Hauser & Wirth, showcases sophisticated, accessible essays, interviews, profiles and portfolios by some of the most admired writers and artists working today, in a visually driven style that celebrates the tactile pleasures of print.

The inaugural issue features a cover-story conversation between the pioneering gallerist and activist Linda Goode Bryant and the artist Senga Nengudi; new essays by Luc Sante and Alissa Bennett; a commemorative remembrance of the artist Betty Woodman; a new poem by the National Book Award winner Robin Coste Lewis; and portfolios of work by Amy Sherald and Takesada Matsutani.

128 pages, Paperback

Published February 19, 2019

About the author

Randy Kennedy was born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Plains, a small farming town in the Texas Panhandle, where his father worked as a telephone lineman and his mother as a teachers’ aide. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to New York City in 1991 and worked for twenty-five years as a staff member and writer for The New York Times, first as a city reporter and for many years covering the art world. A collection of his city columns, Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York, was published in 2004. For The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine he has written about many of the most prominent artists of the last 50 years, including John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Nan Goldin, Paul McCarthy and Isa Genzken. He is currently director of special projects for the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Janet Krone Kennedy, a clinical psychologist, and their two children.