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INTERVIEW WITH LEO COSTELLI 4-4-4 MRS.V.: Yes. And I really think this is a tremendous service and it takes a lot of money and time, and I do not know any other gallery that does this and keeps this. MR.C.: I like to, and Alvin... well, he does it all on his own. For his own pleasure of course, and he makes some extra money out of it. But he does it and we do it, or I wouldn't permit him to be absent from the gallery where I need him so, for sometimes two or three days on end, one day here and one day there, because I feel it is a very important activity, not for me, but for the art world in general. MRS.V.: How does he make extra money out of it? MR.C.: He delivers lectures, ... MRS.V: I know, I went to a lecture given by him at the Harvard Club, and I thought it was going to be about your artists, you had two new ones who I was very interested in knowing more about. But he lectured on new artists... MR.C.: [[strikethrough]] Well, he is not...[[/strikethrough]] He has complete freedom to do as he likes. And generally speaking, he won't speak, he won't talk about my artists because, except the new ones people are still interested in finding out about, it is sort of obsolete to talk about Rauschenberg, Johns or Stellar. Everybody [[strikethrough]] but he [[/strikethrough]] knows who they are and what they are, [[strikethrough]] except if [[/strikethrough]]unless he is talking to a very ignorant audience. So what is more interesting [[strikethrough]] he will [[/strikethrough]] is to talk about new artists. And this, that he does on his own, is a benefit to the art world like our benefits and advice in general. Another person who we have is Alita and David, they are a team. David now is going to leave on a long leave of absence, to travel and some. But he'll come back. In any case, he wants to leave at the end of the season, to travel. This is why we got Alita Agee, who will take his place. She is the wife of Bill Agee, and she could not stay any longer at the museum where she had worked for six years, because there is a rule there that man and wife, a stupid rule, I believe, will not work together in that establishment. She was in charge of sending out exhibitions, etcetera. You know, following all kinds of things, setting up bibliographies, all kinds of things. An interesting job. We need two persons for our registering and shipping. One, cannot possibly tackle the problem. We had a parttime person, called Christine Klauser, and when she left, well while she was there we already found (more)
