Art

"Questions for My Father" (2011) by Karl Haendel. (Photo: the artist and Harris Lieberman Gallery)

All About My Father: Artist Karl Haendel and His Friends Have Lots of Questions

A few years ago Karl Haendel wrote down a list of questions he had always wanted to ask his father. For most of us, this would constitute an idle, possibly self-indulgent, possibly cathartic exercise, maybe one assigned as homework in psychotherapy—and would most likely result in a scrap of paper destined for the circular file. But Mr. Haendel is an artist, and for him it became a large drawing called, appropriately, Questions for My Father. He showed it in 2007 at his New York gallery, Harris Lieberman, and then, in 2010, at the Guggenheim Museum. Read More