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I wanted to talk a little about 101 Spring Street space. Is that open to the public? It will be open to the public, but it’s under restoration right now. It’s on Spring and Mercer. It’s very cool, it’s a five story cast iron building. It’s been under white fabric for a while because of the restoration. It’s not all getting remodeled, it’s just getting fixed up. How did that space come to belong to Judd Foundation? That was the building that I grew up in, and that my dad had a studio in, and he worked on the spaces there through 1994. And then we saved it, but each floor is kind of amazing in and of itself, especially the top floor. So when will it open to the public? It opens June 3rd 2013. And we’re making this amazing Stop Motion film starting in April of all the fabric and scaffolding coming down, and everything being moved in. This June you’ll be able to see the building from the outside but it’ll take us a really long time to put all the art back in and make sure it’s all okay. It’s very old and historic, and so the whole idea is that it’ll be restored but it’ll look just like it always did. It’s something my brother [Flavin] is particularly involved with; he's overseeing the project with another board member, Rob Beyer. You work closely with your brother on a lot of the projects related to your father’s art. Is that difficult at times? This question, when I read it, it made me think of leadership. I think definitely in our 20's dealing with our father's death was hard for us, but up until we were 20, we were pretty bonded, and then there’s some loss of innocence in having to work together. And I’m not saying this for everyone, but in our relationship there was this shift towards responsibility and we weren’t necessarily having so much fun all the time, or getting together in order to have fun… It must create a different dynamic between siblings when you’re working so closely together. Like these days I really, really, appreciate this…us as two incredibly different people who are bonded over a joint goal, and then are okay with manifesting it in a completely different way. You just have more respect for each other’s point of view and creativity and philosophies. [Rainer Judd, photo via]
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