John Armleder: Tasting the Pudding

Products, sounds, images—contemporary culture swamps us with sensory overload. “Too Much, ” opines John Armleder, “is not Enough.” (The quirky capitalization in the show’s title is Armleder’s.) In his first solo U.S. museum installation, Armleder took over the entire 10,000-square-foot exhibition space at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, and filled it with a

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Anselm Kiefer’s Falling Stars

“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.

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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,

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