Since Louise Bourgeois’s major installation of the monumental towers I Do, l Undo, and I Redo and the spider sculpture Maman at the Tate Modern in 2000 (Sculpture January/February 2001), her exhibition schedule has. if anything, increased….
Carsten Nicolai: Crystalline Beauty in Mathematical Space
While visitors may have become accustomed to the Frankfurter Kunsthalle changing its look wirh every exhibition, this tinre it is absolurely unrecogrrizable….see the full feature in July/August’s magazine.
The Artist Pension Trust
The first year of the Artist Pension Trust has resulted in the collection of approximately 65 artworks by 50 fine artists in the New York branch and the expansion of the trust’s program to Los Angeles and London (England), with other regions in Asia, Europe, and South America in the works, according to David Ross,
Inside The Gates
I am patrolling in a Gates-monitor uniform on the east side of Manhattan’s Central Park, walking south under Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s saffron-colored sheets of fabric….see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Making Jewels Out of Hardware: Dan Flavin
In the much-anticipated exhibition “Dan Fiavin: A Retrospective,” with 46 objects and installations and 110 works on paper and collage constructions, there are plenry of glowing geometries to support Flavin’s srarus in the Minimalist pantheon, alongside Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Carl Andre, and a stellar cast of experts to make the argument:…see the full
The Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Michael Joo
Michael Joo employs a rarely seen range of language and structure, and his work represents a turning point in early 21st-century sculpture….see the full feature in June’s magazine.
David Nash: Organic Sculpture in the Forest and the Gallery
In the 1960s, a group of sculptors- Anthony Caro, Philip King, William Tucker, and Isaac Witkin-in a development parallel to American Minimalism, often used technological means to fabricate objects that challenge the observer by their dominating presence in space….
To Make Meanings Real: A Conversation with Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero celebrated his 70th birthday without fanfare in fall 2003. He was on site with his small crew at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis,preparing for his retrospective exhibition and installing his mega-ton “dragons in the sky,” including the new work Destino.
Words Imagined: Cerith Wyn Evans
“I have bags full of bits of paper. I have boxes of telegraph keys. To be too organized would not be a participating artist.” Such is Cerith Wyn Evans’s explanation of where his ideas come from, and in its way it is a complete and accurate explanation.
Benefits and Risks of Selling Artwork On-line
During the summer of 2003, “lightning struck” for Houston, Texas, artist Douglas Hamilton-not literally, but perhaps just as randomly. One of his paintings, Sydney II, was bought from the Internet site ArtQuest (www.ArtQuest.com), which features the work of 500-plus artists.
