“If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, ‘tradition’should be positively discouraged….see the full feature in October’s magazine.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Confession
Magdalena Abakanowicz was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2005. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Dear Reader: Every writing of history consists of a selection of facts and interpretations of facts.
Concurrences: A Conversation with Edward Mayer
Balance is actively achieved and maintained. Edward Mayer,s work epitomizes a life-long pursuit of seeking a vividly independent equilibrium….see the full feature in October’s magazine.
Magnetism and Drama: A Conversation with Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio cattelan was born in Padua in 1960. He did not attend art schoor but taught himserf. catteran worked as a gardener, mortuary attendant, and designer, among other things, before turning to making art…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Petah Coyne: Baroque Transformations and Humor
If Eva Hesse’s 19 cylinders installed at the new MoMA represent an esoteric insertion of the individualism and humanism missing from Minimalism, then Petah Coyne’s 1.7-year retrospective is an all-out shout….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Great Places to Take a Date: A Conversation with Sue de Beer
Brooklyn-based Sue de Beer lures audiences into her disquieting sculptural constructions with blood-and-heartache-filled films. de Beer’s installations pump…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Accumulated Vision: A Conversation with Barry Le Va
Since the late 1960s, Barry Le Va has used broken grass, bail bearings, powdered meat creavers, felt, chark, cast concrete, paper towers, and assorted other materials to make his enigmatic sculptures….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Balancing Act: A Conversation with Julian Opie
Julian Opie’s works—die-cut colored vinyl shapes reading as interactions between painting and sculpture, video works of pictographic reductions, and landscapes imbued with nominal, almost anodyne forms—have often been described as generic and benign fabrications. On an initial reading, anonymity, neutrality, and synthesized systems are Opie’s elements.
Un Intervista con Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled, 2004. Mixed media, life-size. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, NY Andrea Bellini: Maurizio, intervistarti non è la cosa più facile al mondo.. Maurizio Cattelan: E allora non farlo. Potremmo andare a prendere un caffé. AB: Si, magari più tardi.
Janet Echelman’s She Changes
Porto, in the north of Portugal, is culturally different from the south, where Lisbon is situated. As I was informed by my Portuguese colleagues, the relationship between Lisbon and Porto resembles that between Madrid and Barcelona.
