Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz

For the past decade, Alyson Shotz has created sculptures and installations for public and private spaces in which light, texture, and material evoke sensations of movement and dynamism and create new and unexpected visual perceptions. Widely shown in the United States, she has exhibited at a number of major institutions, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art

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Jaume Plensa: The Shock of the Known

When Descartes deduced cogito ergo sum or when Einstein concluded that E=MC2, they formulated ideas of such incisive simplicity that we intuitively accept them as right. No matter that few of us are qualified to follow their precise reasoning, it is enough that such complex deductions have been so succinctly distilled and have thus entered

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Dennis Oppenheim: Public Action

Dennis Oppenheim’s iconoclastic inventions and interventions of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s would seem to be unlikely platforms for launching bureaucracy-laden public art commissions. By shaping remote landscapes, marking his own body, and making quasi-objects that galleries and museums found a challenge to exhibit, Oppenheim undermined every convention of the art world, let alone those

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