The southwestern corner of Grant Park, often referred to as Chicago’s “front yard,” had been a conspicuous open space in a 320-acre park that dates to the 1830s and faces a more than mile-long skyscraper wall along Michigan Avenue.
The Perils of Public Art: Louise Nevelson Plaza
Even as a retrospective of Louise Nevelson’s work opens at The Jewish Museum in New York, one of her most important public artworks is being redesigned beyond recognition. Nevelson was the first woman to gain fame in the U.S.
Martha Posner
Kutztown, Pennsylvania The more time you spend with Martha…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
“Open Network: Brooklyn”
San Francisco “Open Network: Brooklyn,” curated by Patricia Maloney…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Jane South
New York Jane South recently presented a new collection…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Karlis Rekevics: Recent Sculpture
Karlis Rekevics’s generously scaled, weirdly architectural cast plaster constructions are some of the most robust, aggressive, materially expressive sculptures around. They are also among the most evocative and elusive. For all their size, their evident mass and weight, and their rough material palette, Rekevics’s haunting structures refuse to rely solely on the unignorable fact of
“The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas”
Washington, DC ln this show about uncertainty, one thing…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
George Schroeder
San Antonio Inspired by the screeching-metal sounds of a…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Keiichi Ikegami and Yushi Yashima
Kyoto Keiichi Ikegami explores his own physical condition…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Shifting Paradigms: A Conversation with Conrad Shawcross
Addressing subjects on the border of science and philosophy, Conrad Shawcross’s structural and often mechanical sculptures question the empirical, ontological, and philosophical systems that define our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his complex systems ultimately deny all rational function and force the viewer down alternate philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce a
