Richard Yelle discusses founding New Work magazine. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:57.

Richard Yelle: One of the most interesting things that happened during that period of ‘78 was the founding of New Work magazine. And I had very specific reasons why I founded that magazine. And that is—I’m trying to think of the right words. That is because I thought the, the glass world at that time was unsophisticated, I guess. And I thought that they needed to be a publication that had very high standards and talked about the concept and the reason for making the work as much as how it was made. And I loved our first two issues. In the first issue I, if I remember correctly, Dan Dailey had a piece on the cover. And it was a big glass vase, and I don’t know if you know this about him, but he used to be really into red rubber as a mixed media material. And so his, his vase [laughs] had little, little pencils with red rubber erasers attached to it. It was hilarious. And there was a rubber place on Canal Street that was just, like, incredible. It had every kind of rubber you can imagine. And that second issue had a cover story on Jamie [James] Carpenter. And I still remember that issue very clearly because one of Jamie’s premises was that stained glass was actually the first cinema, and if you think about it, it made perfect sense to me at that time.