BORIS LURIE

Dietmar Kirves: Interview with Boris Lurie, 1995. — “It is extremely difficult to produce a kind of art that history will pass over in silence, that the art magazines will dismiss, that will embarrass collectors and be offensive to most other artists. The Lurie-Goodman-Fisher activities in the March Gallery and later in the Gertrude Stein Gallery succeeded in achieving this large negative.” (Brian O’Doherty, 1971). In the 60s founders of NO!art Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher developed a provocative alternative to the “optimism of the cheerful Pop production” (Wolf Vostell) by radically performing SHIT SHOW 1964 at March Gallery, New York and at the Gertrude Stein Gallery later. A today really ignored chapter of American art has arisen after the experience with the Holocaust and the disgust concerning the affirmative practice of art, a “strategic juncture where artistic production meets socio-cultural action.” — in: neue bildende Kunst, Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kritik, Nr. 1/95, S. 46 - 50, Berlin 1995.

Alan Murdock: Interview with Boris Lurie, 1999. — “While thinking about the concept of the individual in society I remembered an article I conducted with Boris Lurie of the NO!art movement. Two days ago I posted part of the article, originally printed in The Daily Iowan newspaper. Following is the interview conducted for that article ..."

Megaklés Rogákos and Janos Gat: Not Mince Matters, 2000. — “Megaklés Rogakos: How long have you been living in the US? Boris Lurie: I have been living here since the end of World War I. A long time since 1946. MR: I was looking into your biography and read that you spent time in a concentration camp. How long was it? BL: It was long time! 4 Years. MR: It must have been hell. BL: The curious thing is that last year (1999) there was an exhibition of my work at the Buchenwald Memorial in Germany. There will be a book coming out called “Poetry” with illustrations from that exhibition and by many other artists.

Max Liljefors: Boris Lurie and NO!art, 2003. — In New York, in the late 1950's, an independent, anti-establishment art movement evolved around The March Gallery, one of several artists' co-operative galleries at that time on Tenth Street on Eastern Manhattan. The group was originally called The March group, but was later renamed as NO!art ... — in: Heterogénesis, Tidskrift för visuell konst, nr. 44, July 2003, Lund (Sweden)

David Katz: Boris Lurie. The artist as provocateur, 2005. — Earlier this year, along with photographer, archivist, gallery owner and friend Clayton Patterson, I interviewed Lurie as he recuperated from quadruple bypass surgery ... — in: Jewish Quarterly, A magazine of contemporary writing & culture, autumn 2005, no 199, London, 2005