Charles Ruas in a 2012 conversation with dealer, a curator and critic Klaus Kertess who died in October 2016. The focus was Kertess’s collected essays about artists with whom he was associated, Seen, Written. Born in 1940 and Yale educated, Kertess founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966 where he first started to support the (mostly) minimalist and process art works of Chuck Close, Ralph Humphrey, Barry Le Va, Brice Marden, David Novros, Alan Saret, and Dorothea Rockburne among others. Kertess mentored Mary Boone and Lynda Benglis and others who worked for him. He left the gallery in 1975 to pursue his interest in curating and in writing. He became an adjunct curator of drawing at the Whitney Museum in 1989. In 1995 he was the curator of the Whitney Biennial. The accompanying photo, taken in 1976, is by his husband, Billy Sullivan. "Art is a platform for experience, not a lesson."

Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "A unparalleled collection of recovered and restored programs from the seventies produced by Charles Ruas for WBAI-FM, New York's Pacifica station. It features reading, lectures, and performances by such cultural and literary icons as Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anaïs Nin, William Boroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges, among numerous others.

Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. He is also a contributor to ARTNews and Art in America. This series is produced in partnership with Charles Ruas, The Pacifica Radio Archives, The Yale Beinecke Library, The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Collection, and numerous restorers, archivists and collectors."