Steve Martin Talks Art with Peter Schjeldahl at New Yorker Festival

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The capacity crowd that packed the largest auditorium of the SVA Theatre last Friday evening could be forgiven for having interpreted the sold-out New Yorker Festival event’s title—“Peter Schjeldahl talks with Steve Martin”—to mean that Schjeldahl, the magazine’s beloved art critic, would assume the role of interlocutor. But it wasn’t to be. After the two strode on stage, without introduction, Martin was the first to speak. “I’m very thrilled to be interviewing Peter Schjeldahl,” he said brightly.

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