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Edward Hopper's painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on the facts" of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.
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"Hunt and Bernheimer, whose books are published by Coffee House, were asked to 'take up residence' in the painting and write a story about what's going on in that office. Hopper, who died in 1967, probably would have blessed this unique project since he commented that there was a narrative to 'Office at Night' that would have to be supplied by the viewer."
Pioneer Press
"[T]he Walker--always an adventurous museum--has gone one step further with Office at Night. As Schultz explains, she and Chris Fischbach, publisher of Coffee House Press, were brainstorming when they came up with the idea of asking two prominent writers, Laird Hunt and Kate Bernheimer, to collaborate on a novella inspired by Office at Night--in essence, Schultz says, 'to take up residence in the
Smithsonian
"Traditionally, curatorial institutions like the Walker and Coffee House Press are viewed as tastemakers presenting great art" to audiences. Walker Education Director Sarah Schultz and her colleagues, as well as my colleagues at Coffee House, have been striving to subvert that dynamic. With much of our new programming, we seek to create opportunities for audiences to engage with the art we present
Walker Art Center