David Smith: Freedom and Myth

David Smith is one of American art’s great apostles of freedom. He spoke about it, wrote about it, and embodied it in his life and art. He refused to be confined by rules or any other boundaries, did not let anyone else dictate to him what was aesthetically acceptable, was ever-alert to unorthodox materials and

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Ingo Ronkholz: Beyond the Image

What motivates a young painter to turn his back on painting and apply his efforts to sculpture? In the case of Ingo Ronkholz, a growing feeling of the insufficiency of the “reality conveyed by painting” caused him to shift more and more to sculpture as the focus of his interest:…see the full feature in December’s

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Identifying Noguchi

Identity was a personal issue for Isamu Noguchi throughout his life. Presumed to be Japanese by most Americans and American by most Japanese, he has only recently been recognized as…see the full feature in November’s magazine.

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