The Intensest Rendezvous
Listen to an evening reading of a selection of Bellamy’s professional letters by an array of friends and colleagues at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium in October 1998. Readers included Ivan Karp, Arthur Danto, Virginia Wright, Robert Storr and Betsy Baker. (A good number of these appear in Serious Bidness.) The event was conceived by Kathy Goncharov, and the letters (and their readers) were chosen by Miles Bellamy. The original recordings reside in The Richard Bellamy Papers, IV.7, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Program:
The Intensest Rendezvous: Selected Letters of Richard Bellamy Read by Artists, Writers and Friends.
Welcoming: Kathy Goncharov (missing from tape)
Introduction: Miles Bellamy
Letter to Virginia Wright, December 1963, read by Virginia Wright
Letter to Virginia Wright, January 1968, read by Virginia Wright
Letter to Richard Lang, November 1976, read by Karen Wilkin
Letter to Vera List, December 1976, read by Miles Bellamy
Letter to Virginia Wright, 1977, read by Virginia Wright
Letter to Adam Aronson, February 1978, read by Kristin Jones
Letter to Priscilla Colt, January 1980, read by Betsy Baker
Letter to Alfred Taubman, February 1981, read by Karen Wilkin
Letter to Paul Richard, February 1988, read by Michael Brenson
Letter to Joseph Pulitzer, January 1989, read by Robert Storr
Letter to Jackie Fowler, December 1993, read by Arthur Danto
Letter to Virginia Wright, August 1994, read by Virginia Wright
Letter to Edward Leffingwell, August 1995, read by Miles Bellamy
Letter to Agnes Gund, August 1995, read by Betsy Baker
Letter to PS 1 Studio Program, April 1995, read by Walter Robinson
Letter to Alice Snyder, May 1997, read by Walter Robinson
Letter to Mark di Suvero, July 1995, read by Ivan Karp
Letter to George Foreman, January 1996, read by Sally Gross
Letter to Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel, read by Andrew Ginzel
Letter to Harry Wilks, March 1998, read by Robert Storr
Letter to Betsy Baker, March 1998, read by Betsy Baker
Letter to Yayoi Kusama, March 1998, read by Sally Gross
Part 1
Part 2
Remembrances
On a bright but chilly Wednesday afternoon in May of 1998, more than a thousand people gathered in the asymmetrical courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, NY, to hear Richard Bellamy’s family, friends and colleagues remember his life. Speakers included Barbara Flynn, Richard Serra, Fredericka Hunter, Jill Johnston, Mary Corse, Alfred Leslie, David Rabinowitch, Barbara Rose and Jim Rosenquist. The original video resides in The Richard Bellamy Papers, IV.6, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
