Ursula: Issue 6

by Calvin Tomkins (primary_contributor), Randy Kennedy (Editor)

The latest issue of Ursula with a special feature on Calvin Tomkins The newest issue of Hauser & Wirth’s Ursula features a discussion with Calvin Tomkins, the New Yorker ’s longtime art critic, about his career writing on everything from David Hammons in 2019 to his initial interviews with Marcel Duchamp in 1959―reflecting a life lived deeply in the art of his time. A watercolor portrait of Tomkins by Elizabeth Peyton graces the cover of Ursula . Other articles include Maurizio Cattelan’s “interview” with Fabio Mauri, Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa on the writing of Samuel R. Delany and its importance to their life and work, a portfolio of previously unseen work by Nicholas Party, Jarrett Earnest on his recent trip to the Austin International Drag Festival where he reflects on the nuances of the execution of drag, as well as other articles from Lucy Ives, Carmen Winant and more.

120 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2020

About the author

Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He wrote his first fiction piece for the magazine in 1958, and his first fact piece in 1962. His many Profile subjects have included Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Georgia O’Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Stella, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, and Jasper Johns. He wrote the Art World column from 1980 to 1988. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a general editor of Newsweek, a post he held from 1957 through 1959. In 1955, he joined Newsweek as an associate editor. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including “The Bride and the Bachelors,” “Merchants and Masterpieces,” “Living Well Is the Best Revenge,” “Off the Wall,” “Duchamp: A Biography,” and “Lives of the Artists.” A revised edition of his Duchamp biography came out in 2014.