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What are your long-term goals for Judd Foundation? In a nutshell, the long-term goal is to have all the spaces taken care of the best we can. This restoration project of Spring Street is a huge accomplishment, but the Texas buildings need the same amount of work as well. Our goal is just to develop access that’s really representative of what we want to share. For example, recently we started talking about how yes, people are given tours, but really we don’t want people to talk all the time and we want there to be a certain amount of silence on their tours. So really, it’s just about tweaking things so that there’s a kind of template set for what Judd Foundation is doing to provide this access. It’s not just your average, ‘here’s a space walk in and look at it.’ I think [another goal is] to create certain events and situations for dialogue [such as last week’s panel at MoMA, titled “A Room Somewhere: The Artist’s Home as Record,” at which Rainer spoke], and creating partnerships with different intuitions that have their own audiences that we can expand onto, or we can expand their thinking by letting them into Don’s writing and spaces. I know you do your own film work, and a lot of it is semi-autobiographical—particularly your short film Remember Back, Remember When. Do you feel more protective of your story because it’s so personal to you? I feel the need to tell a more complex and transcendent story. Are you currently working on anything else? Actually, I’m working on a feature now that’s also autobiographical, but it’s more complex and transcendent, it’s kind of like To Kill a Mockingbird meets Kramer Vs. Kramer. It’s kind of like a little girl’s story but with a lot of art. It’s very time consuming because I have to get a lot of things right. I have to get all these ideas of mine right, and because I’m involved with the Foundation I have to get my dad’s idea right, too. Do you have any of your dad’s art in your house? I’m more interested in things, like furniture. The things I really love of his I have in a crate...maybe this year I’ll take them out. [Rainer Judd, photo via]
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