“Monumenta” is a new annual exhibition conceived around a building: the Grand Palais in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées at the Avenue Winston Churchill. Originally built in 1900 for the Paris Exposition, the great glass and steel structure suffered from neglect over time and was closed in 1993 after a glass roof panel fell.
Casting George
Preoccupied as George Segal was with formal issues such as volume and voids, surface and color, he was at heart a storyteller, a creator of parables in which ordinary events took on extraordinary connotations. Though most of the subjects and themes he portrayed were reflections of the world around him, he universalized and, on occasion,
The Controversy That Wouldn’t Die: Tilted Arc and the Triumph of Spectacle
It has been 18 years since Tilted Arc (1981) was removed from Federal Plaza, eight years after the General Services Administration (GSA) installed it adjacent to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan. At the time, it was the subject of countless articles in the popular and art press and subsequently the subject
Water Mirror: A Conversation with Ichi Ikeda
Japanese sculptor and performance artist Ichi Ikeda uses water as his main medium, a choice strongly connected to global environmental problems. Recognizing that water is one of the Earth’s most precious resources, Ikeda is dedicated to raising global awareness of water conservation through international conferences, community activism, public performances, and interactive installations.
Reading Paper: A Conversation with Jae Ko
Korean-born Jae Ko studied at Toyo Art School and Wako University in Tokyo, where she earned a BFA in 1988. Ten years later, she completed her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Tom Doyle: Allegories of Time, Space, and Nature
The manner in which one circumambulates a Tom Doyle sculpture is very special. One moves through it and around it at the same time. These forms are meant for graceful viewing, a dance with nature, inspired by the kind of structural indices that incite metaphysical thought.
Michael Heizer: Sculpture in Space and Time
Michael Heizer introduced substantial questions into the discourse of sculpture in the late 1960s and ’70s, offering new experiences with his bold choices of site, material, and scale. His use of rocks, stones, earth, and desert landscapes is integral to his core aesthetic and reflects his upbringing as the son of an eminent archaeologist: Heizer
Joan Truckenbrod: Exploring the In-Between
Video sculpture, at its best, represents a rich fusion of the materially embodied space of sculpture and the chronologically successive, fleeting moments of time. This synthesis lies at the heart of Joan Truckenbrod’s art. Her sculpture explores the density and mortality of the physical world by depicting that world as a continuous, unfolding, subatomic flow
Trusting Serendipity: A Conversation with John Phillips and Carolyn Healy
Carolyn Healy is an installation artist who began her career with an exhibition of small, abstract sculptures made of found objects at the Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, in 1979. Since 1987 she has created numerous large site-specific installation pieces, some for performance events and many in collaboration with sound and video artist John Phillips.
Nevelson’s Dawn’s Wedding Feast: Re-Finding the Found Object
“The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend” (on view at The Jewish Museum in New York through September 16, 2007 and traveling to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, October 27, 2007–January 13, 2008) presents 66 works including sculpture, drawings, and two room-size masterworks by the towering 20th-century sculptor.
