Milan
“Remember the Ladies”: New Women’s Memorials in Boston and Contemporary Commemorative Art
New memorial designs fuse contemporary approaches with traditional portraiture …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Janet Biggs
Atlanta Solomon Projects Janet Biggs, BuSpar (detail), 1999. Three-channel video installation. As she continues her work with women and horses, New York-based artist Janet Biggs presentsBuSpar, a trio of beautiful and unsettling images that place the viewer inside an emotional and psychological paradox.
“Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
New York The Museum of Modern Art Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Torso, 1913-14. Cast stone, 37.5 x 18.75 x 14 in. The exhibition “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” part of the “modernstarts; PEOPLE” show at the Museum of Modern Art, was a component of a general overview of the period 1880 through 1920, when the articles
Secondary Structures
For these artists, minimal objects are links in a chain of association and causation …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Robert Arneson
Lincoln, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture park Robert Arneson, Chemo I, Bronze, 47 x 21 x 19 in. Robert Arneson confronts the Sculpture June 2000 public at the DeCordova Museum the way he confronted everything: he stands, in polychromed bronze at the end of a corridor, arms folded, jean jacket open over chest and navel.
Bradley McCallum
New York Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine Elie Wiesel and others have noted the growing significance of testimony in contemporary life. ln a mediated environment of information that seems sensational or inconsequential, the testimony of an eyewitness offers something explicit and reliable.
Carlos Mollura
Seattle
Welcome Home: Project Row Houses
Arts, housing, history, and community combine in an antidote to urban ills …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
