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Dan Graham was inexplicable, and I often felt that he wanted it that way. He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of many subjects (art, architecture, rock Dan Graham's intellectual curiosity was enormous. The world around him probably seemed to move too slowly—and he needed to speed it up.

This week, the editors look back at Dan Graham’s “Art in Relation to Architecture/Architecture in Relation to Art,” which appeared in Artforum in February 1979. Graham, who died this past February, is remembered by scholar Alex Kitnick and artist R. H. Quaytman in the magazine’s April issue, out now.Given his extensive, eclectic body of work, it is easy to forget that Dan Graham first entered the art world in the mid-1960s as a gallerist and writer. One of his seminal essays, “Art in Relation to Architecture/Architecture in Relation to Art,” parses the rich dynamics between its tit...

Thinking back on my thirty-year friendship with Dan Graham, I realize, only now, that entering his orbit was a lot like stepping into one of his glass pavilions. There was an outside and an inside, with a threshold between them that was optically but not physically permeable. As anyone who knew Dan will attest, he could deploy an intense focus toward his interlocutor that made it feel like he really saw you. He was a soothsayer, a reader of the signs and markers of our common life story. He had a way of getting at your deepest fears, laying them out like a cheap country-and-western song and

I DIDN'T KNOW Dan Graham well. I met him a handful of times in the mid-2000s when I was a graduate student at Princeton University. I wanted to write my dissertation on Dan, but I was too young and too terrified to do it. Once, when I met him in his loft on New York’s Spring Street, he threw a fit because I didn’t know the work of the Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa. I was wet behind the ears and couldn’t find my angle—I was too sympathetic to his position, which was at once ardent, skeptical, and laced with wry humor. With Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, we took an architect...

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