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Sean Scully with David Carrier
David Carrier | The Brooklyn Rail | 5th March 2018
A critic once described Scully’s stripe paintings as having “grandeur”. In interview he does come across as focused on grand themes. Past inspiration – “discord, the way people and ideas compete for survival.” Present inspiration – “to rescue abstraction from remoteness” The art world – “[it] has changed dramatically … Paris, London, and New York no longer call the shots as they did”.