Laszlo Moholy-Nagy brought Modernism to Chicago in 1937 when he founded the New Bauhaus, later the Institute of Design, where Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Nathan Lerner, and other important photographers taught. For a long time, Chicago was a photo town.
Once Upon a Time: A Conversation with Andrea Loefke
German-born Andrea Loefke lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, constructing complex conglomerates of material and form, working from innumerable materials, both decorative and everyday. These supplies overflow from the categorized shelves and bins of her studio.
Vulnerable Beauty: A Conversation with Cathy de Monchaux
Cathy de Monchaux made her imprint on London’s YBA scene with sculptures that evoked the chic, sadistic eros of The Story of O and the desires that Lou Reed sang about in his homage to Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs.
Manfred Müller: Contingent Space
German-born, Los Angeles-based Manfred Müller is best known for his installations: church pews in Mexico, painted soot-black and reconfigured so that the seats collide elegantly, or a “desk,” reconstituted from found office materials, jutting out of one window and re-entering through another.
Playing with Light and Space: A Conversation with Soo Sunny Park
Soo Sunny Park’s light-filled installations are simultaneously visceral and immaterial. They encourage viewers to explore the sensual effects of light and shadow, geometry, the natural landscape, and the wonders of physics. Her 2007 exhibitions included solo shows at the Fire House Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, the Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio, and Reeves
San Francisco: Sculpture in the Bay Area
Situated on the edge of San Francisco at Pier 14, flanked by the Bay Bridge and the Ferry building, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s unmistakable bow and arrow monument, Cupid’s Span, and Mark di Suvero’s 70-foot kinetic sculpture, Sea Change, Louise Bourgeois’s Crouching Spider is poised and seemingly ready to march into the city.
The Dream of the Moving Statue
Early in 2002, a photo was published in the Guardian of a nude figure lying among the debris of the World Trade Center in the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. The ambiguities in this image are manifold.
Arnaldo Pomodoro: Within/Without
Arnaldo Pomodoro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2008. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. For more than half a century, Arnaldo Pomodoro has been making prescient, penetrating observations about modern life with his sculpture, expressing the inherent intimations, tensions, and tenuous, fleeting joys of the postwar era
Marisol: Stories of the Self
A lot has been written about Marisol Escobar, often focusing as much on her legendary eccentricities as on her art. In his recent memoir, Irving Sandler recalls her participating in a panel at The Club in the early 1960s, wearing a white mask; she was infamously known for “her silences and one-word responses to any
Sculpting Consciousness in Time and Space: A Conversation with Ned Kahn
MacArthur Fellow Ned Kahn is one of the most undefined artists working today. And that is just the way he likes it. His refusal to be pigeonholed grants him the freedom to embark on projects of his own choosing, whether they be wind curtains to cover the urban blight of a concrete parking garage or
