Mary Heilmann reads from ‘The All Night Movie’ While I was finishing school, some things started to come out of New York that were really important for me: Dick Bellamy’s ‘Arp to Artschwager’ show at Noah Goldowsky Gallery Lucy Lippard’s ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ show at Fischbach the ‘Primary Structures’ show at the Jewish Museum. Also featured here is the unofficial ‘soundtrack’ to ‘The All Night Movie’-a playlist of the songs Heilmann mentions in her text, with her colorful anecdotes to set the stage for listening.-Jake Brodsky More than recounting this Californian’s move East to give New York a go, Heilmann’s text sketches a dynamic portrait of a particularly prolific period for the city’s artists, giving a spirited account of the scene. With the book out-of-print and hard to find, presented here is a glimpse of the stories within, brought newly alive online: Heilmann reads the account of her early years in New York alongside an excerpt from the text, reconstructed here in the spirit of the original publication. ![]() Narrated by Heilmann’s frank and witty text, these chapters offer the vibrant sensory rush of memory itself. Heilmann worked closely with Mark Magill on ‘The All Night Movie’’s radical design, which presents an immersive environment-paintings’ edges meld with their backgrounds, photographs are collaged with text, musicians and their lyrics float across the pages. As Heilmann writes in another introductory text, ‘Looking at Pictures,’ ‘each of my paintings can be seen as an autobiographical marker, a cue, by which I evoke a moment from my past, or my projected future, each a charm to conjure a mental reality and to give it physical form.’ Heilmann’s stories are paired with her paintings as well as archival photographs that show her and her cohort through the years. Each chapter in ‘The All Night Movie’ calls out the songs and musicians Heilmann was listening to at the time, giving the ‘movie’ its soundtrack. Heilmann’s circle-at various points including artists such as Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tina Girouard, and William Wegman-happened to coincide with some of the key actors in the artistic movements of the day, like post-minimalism, new performance and video art, and conceptualism. ![]() Beginning with Heilmann’s youth in California-San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Berkeley-these memoirs also chronicle her move to New York in 1968 and the developments in her creative practice and its artistic and social milieu through the ’90s. The main feature here, however, is ‘The All Night Movie,’ which unfolds like an experimental biopic over eight chapters of purely transporting recollection.
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