Lyn Blumenthal

In this interview with Craig Owens the artist discusses her early family influences and her time at the University of California. "There was a tremendous amount of alternative culture that completely took place... without any relation to the high art world of New York,” she remembers. A historical interview originally recorded in 1984 and re-edited in 2005 with support from the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund.

Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial pages of Newsweek magazine.