Holland Cotter Interview
Holland Cotter is the chief art critic and a senior writer at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for criticism. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime journalist and the foundation’s new executive director, in conversation with Holland. It has been gently edited for length and clarity.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, March 2024)
“The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless,” by Holland Cotter (The New York Times, March 2008)
Siena: The Rise of Painting, exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024.
Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Agnes Martin: Paintings,Writings,Remembrances by Arne Glimcher (Phaidon Press, 2012)
This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews includes Cindy Eggert Johson, producer, and Johnathon Olsen, editor. Music is by Ariel Shalom, Nomad Producer, Maybird and Jozeque. These interviews are accompanied by newly commissioned portraits of these writers in the spaces where they work made by Kevin J. Miyazaki.