Ursula: Issue 4

by Randy Kennedy (Editor), Stefan Brüggemann (Interviewer), Mark Bradford (Interviewer)

Themes of social justice, art and politics in the latest issue of Hauser & Wirth’s house magazine The fourth issue of Ursula magazine explores questions of social justice and political art, featuring a conversation between the activist philanthropist Agnes Gund and Mark Bradford, whose art career functions side by side with humanitarian work. The issue also looks at the construction of race and identity through early conceptual work by Charles Gaines.

Other highlights include new writing by Gary Indiana on Louise Bourgeois; a celebration of the maverick life and work of Maria Lassnig; Iggy Pop in conversation with Stefan Brüggemann about art, literature and stagecraft; a collection of unusual photo keepsakes from Alec Soth; a look at the groundbreaking work of classical conductor Teodor Currentzis; and a watercolor day at the beach with Maira Kalman.

128 pages, Paperback

Published November 26, 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.