Ursula: Issue 3

by Randy Kennedy (Editor)

The third issue of Hauser & Wirth’s magazine marks the anniversaries of the moon landing and the Bauhaus The third issue of Ursula is full of time capsules. The cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Don Eyles, the pioneering software engineer who wrote the code that conveyed the lunar module safely to the surface that July day, sits down with Matthew Day Jackson, an old friend, to ponder the more transcendent aspects of an achievement the world has not duplicated since. Ursula additionally marks the centenary of another pivotal moment, the founding of the Bauhaus, taking readers back to Dessau and Swiss design pioneer Max Bill's early days as an expressionist painter. The issue also plunges into the history of the all-but-forgotten experimental New York art space 84 West Broadway, whose brief run involved insurgents such as Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner and Peter Nadin.

120 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 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.