Statement by Eric O. Moss, Architect, Los Angeles, on the position expressed in art_curia’s letter to the Austrian Federal President.
Charlotte Sucher to Eric Owen Moss, September 30, 2026:
Dear Mr. Moss,
Peter Noever asked me to send you the final wording. Please see below.
All the best,
Charlotte Sucher
Vienna, September 30, 2026
Dear Mr. President,
On behalf of art_curia / Kurie Kunst, we would like to thank you for your clear words regarding the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank. It is important to speak openly about violations of international law while at the same time emphasizing, unequivocally, that such necessary criticism of the Israeli government must in no way call into question the right of the State of Israel to exist.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation for your clear words and your position in New York.
With our highest regards,
For art_curia / Kurie Kunst
Peter Noever to Eric Owen Moss, September 30, 2026:
Dear Eric,
we need to send this letter to the Federal President today. At its core, it is about the unconditional recognition and acceptance of both sides, and a clear call for peace.
Your support would mean a great deal to me.
The best.
+ peter
Eric Owen Moss to Charlotte Sucher and Peter Noever, October 1, 2026
Peter/Charlotte,
Netanyahu claims to uniquely recall the history of the Jews.
The reverse is the case.
He has denigrated a 3000 year history of Jewish trauma from Babylon to Rome to Spain, to Germany and in between.
Side by side with America’s President, who imagines a nonexistent world and attempts to force compliance to those imaginings, the duet have brought trauma anew to the Middle East, and simultaneously demolished substantial international support for Israel, likely for years to come.
The book below was written by my father and published by Janus press in London many years ago. It’s a fundamental reference for me.
As a prose poem it documents that continuingly painful history of Jewish struggle in the west.
I will never support the miscreant progenitors of current Middle East policy.
Nor can I align with those on the opposite side whose multiple political vantage points include many who permanently oppose the state of Israel.
I don’t want to disappoint my friends and colleagues.
My signature is not a fit in this case.
Regards,
Eric Moss
Moss Herbert: Holy Holocaust
Moss Herbert has a rather unusual background for an American poet in a period whose norm is to find poets teaching on university campuses. He has worked as a newspaper and news service journalist on both Coasts. He has written his poetry while holding successive sports and TV editorships, writing a column in each domain.
His poems have been anthologized; so, too have his sports pieces. His travels have been worldwide. He has been much at home as ringside for a heavyweight championship as in a studio for a movie preview.
He knows the era experientially, intellectually and, above all, critically. His grasp of the media and its formation/deformation of the modern mind was witnessed from within the often primitive colossus. Informed about the past, he is dubious of the future and challenges it.
We are enclosed in a culture that more and more equips itself to turn people outward, make them increasingly shallow. They can be mentally acute, but their inward life is rudimentary. This threat afflicts us all.
Herbert’s poems express the intensive struggle for a “rediscovery by discovery out of carrion … as unique as it is familiar”.
Moss Herbert was born 1914 and died in 1991.
(Janus Publishing Company Ltd.)
Peter Noever to Eric Owen Moss, October 1, 2026
Eric,
I should really have known better. I know and value you as few others—and have, in a sense, for generations (!). Your letter today is both finely nuanced and unmistakably clear, and I am grateful to you for it.
Please accept my apologies, and, exceptionally, also those of the art_curia. Of course, we will not use your signature.
Your position, your words, and especially your reference to your father’s writings have stayed with me. They have made me wonder whether you might allow us to publish this text—perhaps after you have given it another edit, if you wish—on the art_curia website. Not as a statement on your behalf, but because I believe there is something profoundly important in what you have written and in the historical perspective it opens.
We would be very glad to hear from you.
With friendship ¡Venceremos!
+ peter
Peter Noever to Eric Owen Moss, October 12, 2026
Dear Eric,
to avoid any misunderstandings, below is the complete text as it is intended to appear on the art_curia website. Please be so kind and confirm your approval still today.
The best,
+ peter
Eric Owen Moss to Peter Noever and Charlotte Sucher, October 12, 2026
Hi Peter/Charlotte,
Perfect.
Confirmed.
Eric
Sent from my iPad