Twyla Tharp

It can build a career.

It gives you more and more of what you expect.

But for the person who's making the work, that can kind of be deadly.

No.

A different generation.

I knew the painters, the downtown painters in the 60s.

Oh, you want to know the famous names.

No, I don't want to know the names.

I just have a question about – Tony Smith, Frank Stella, Motherwell.

Yeah, the early era, also age is a factor here.

I was very young.

I was just out of college, and I felt very much the student.

It's a different deal now, and it's a different kind of responsibility, and the work's going to be different.

In the early era, I went to see absolutely everything.

Now I go to see absolutely nothing, and it is...

partially a matter of time, but more importantly it's an awareness that you want to feel isolated in a way, because you are, and that's the truth.

So you need to operate from a truthful place.

When you talk about this plethora of information that is out there, I do try to inform myself to some degree about different areas of culture, but I do it through a media perspective because that's how the consumer is receiving it.

The consumer is not at the individual exhibition or at the individual performance.

They're getting it through media.