02. Listen
We revisit an old episode of A Brush With... by The Art Newspaper, featuring Stan Douglas, the multidisciplinary Canadian artist. Douglas shares his early fascination with Marcel Duchamp, reflects on the lasting influence of artists as varied as Francisco de Goya and Agnes Martin, and speaks about his enduring obsession with Samuel Beckett. He also reveals how Miles Davis’s underrated album On the Corner inspired one of his most acclaimed works, Luanda-Kinshasa (2013).




Stan Douglas, 20 june 1930, 20 june 1944, and 20 june 1957 from ‘penn station’s half century’, 2020
ceramic ink on glass |  one of nine photographic panels from ‘penn station’s half century’
image courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner
Photo by Nicholas Knight, courtesy empire state development and public art fund, NY
I had to shoot almost every person indivisually, but still trying to keep a sense of what they were doing as a crowd. So I just shoot them in layers, like first the nearest person, then go back further and further and direct them as I went.


- Stan Douglas spoke about the making of Penn Station