Close encounters of an incredible kind. (artist Chuck Close)

From: Interview | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Artist Chuck Close will be featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1997. His new paintings are incredibly inspirational. His great works have shown how illness can inspire someone to be a better person and artist.

Somebody out there is no fool. To call upon the playwright to write about the artist Chuck Close is to ensure that something surprising will happen. Often, when a literary type sets out to capture the creativity of someone who works visually, the results are superficial, to say the least. Not so with Guare's writing on Close, which appears in a terrific new book, Chuck ...

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