Orgy in the Sky: Rebecca Ripple

Los Angeles-based Rebecca Ripple first intrigued me with word works that seemed to hollow out a place for the human body in banal furnishings. thigh/blind (2001), for instance, spells out “thigh” by cutting the word, letter by letter, into aluminum blinds; in another piece, “elbo” is sewn into a Home Depot rug.

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Transcending the Object: Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is widely known for works that enter into a deep spiritual engagement with the viewer. He revels in the spectacular, creating visually overwhelming, attention-commanding sculpture. During his recent retrospective at London’s Royal Academy of Art, viewers entering the courtyard confronted a towering column of highly reflective spheres that prompted immediate surprise.

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Miami Beyond the Fair

Over the last decade, several dozen contemporary art galleries, museum-quality private art collections, and artist studios have established a presence within a geographically discrete urban grid of warehouses and modest residential neighborhoods in Miami. Nearby commercial enterprises such as restaurants, shoe and clothing wholesale businesses, and boat repair shops attest to the pragmatism and flexibility

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