As far as the art world was concerned, his leap into architecture — designs for things like public parks, airport rest areas and a man-made island — was almost as if Mr. Acconci decided to enter the witness protection program. But he disappeared right in the art world’s midst, continuing to teach generations of art students — NYT
On the occasion of Vito Acconci's first retrospective in the United States, in more than three decades, Randy Kennedy held a series of interviews over three months with the artist.
See also; in the News: (via The Architect's Newspaper, the J. Crew catalog and a Vice/VBS.TV six part interview) or Lian Chikako Chang's live-blog of a lecture he gave in Piper, back in 2011)
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met him. was not impressed.
It's like once you break into the high art world... no matter what kind of dross you put out... you keep getting hired and getting shows. How he translated that into architecture, i don't know.
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