Art All Over the Place: Chronicling Local Life with Lucy Lippard

Lucy Lippard photographed by Carrie Schneider.

Art of the Rural Podcast

Lucy Lippard joins Matthew Fluharty to discuss her decades-long local newsletter, El Puente, and life in Galisteo, NM.

In this episode, Matthew Fluharty visits writer, curator, & activist Lucy Lippard at her home & studio in Galisteo, New Mexico. Lucy discusses the publication of her local newsletter El Puente de Galisteo, which she began editing & distributing in January 1997, in collaboration with local residents & community organizations.

Lucy reflects on her involvement in the Galisteo community and how the village has changed over the past few decades, which she has also chronicled in Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo since 1814 (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2020). She also discusses the inspirations behind her book The Lure of the Local (The New Press, 1997) and its relationship to the trajectory of non-urban art practice.

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