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Press Eject and Give Me the Tape: Dialogues, Interviews, and Exchanges 2001-2020 is a collection of two decades of interviews, as well as a collaboration between the painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein and over 35 contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists. It is as important for current discussions on contemporary culture, theory, media, and politics as it is for discussion of contemporary art. The book features interviews with Inka Essenhigh, Michael Rees, Gary Stephan, Angela Dufresne, Pedro Barbeito, Nicola Tyson, Liz Markus, Peter Williams, Brenda Goodman, Michael Zansky, John Paul, Millree Hughes, and more. Both a slice-of-life view of artists working today and a valuable historical resource for tomorrow.

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As an artist, there is great pleasure in being understood. It is a joy to be interviewed by a fellow artist and writer who fully knows your work, its terms, foundations, and goals. As a reader, it is a joy to have such clear access to each artist's unique work and voice. - Mira Schor, artist and author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture These wide-ranging discussions hold artistic, cultural, and social insights that will delight students of sociology, the arts, and anyone who wants a close inspection of artist working methods, influences, and history . . . Press Eject and Give Me the Tape's intersection of understanding [is] essential for capturing the influences and nuances of today's working artists. - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review Rubenstein takes pains to step out of his art practice to develop the discipline of checking in with other artists. It is important that he is an artist. The artists give him a certain trust, and he is an adept raconteur. For artists, and especially for those artists who aren't born yet, books like this are priceless. - Michael Rees, professor of sculpture and digital media and director of the Center for New Art at William Patterson University

"""As an artist, there is great pleasure in being understood. It is a joy to be interviewed by a fellow artist and writer who fully knows your work, its terms, foundations, and goals. As a reader, it is a joy to have such clear access to each artist's unique work and voice."" - Mira Schor, artist and author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture ""These wide-ranging discussions hold artistic, cultural, and social insights that will delight students of sociology, the arts, and anyone who wants a close inspection of artist working methods, influences, and history . . . Press Eject and Give Me the Tape's intersection of understanding [is] essential for capturing the influences and nuances of today's working artists."" - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review ""Rubenstein takes pains to step out of his art practice to develop the discipline of checking in with other artists. It is important that he is an artist. The artists give him a certain trust, and he is an adept raconteur. For artists, and especially for those artists who aren't born yet, books like this are priceless."" - Michael Rees, professor of sculpture and digital media and director of the Center for New Art at William Patterson University"

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Bradley Rubenstein is a painter and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His works are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Krannert Art Museum Teaching Collection at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The Teaching Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. He has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock-Krasner Award, and a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. He has written extensively on art and art education. Rubenstein has been a contributing editor for ArtKrush magazine, New Observations, and Art Journal. He has contributed interviews, essays, and reviews to CultureCatch, Artforum, Artslant, Battery Journal, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, The Brooklyn Rail, Artholes, and Sharkforum.

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