For all the talk about how the art world is really an industry and how artists should think of themselves as being in business, actual examples of corporate behavior in the fine arts often comes as a surprise.
Nature into Art: A Conversation with Emilie Benes Brzezinski
One of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s most moving sculptures represents Daphne, pursued by Apollo, being transformed into a laurel tree….see the full feature in January/February’s magazine.
Tony Oursler’s Uncanny Drama
As a member of the generation that was raised on television and a witness to the ongoing expiosion of new electronic media, Tony Oursler realizes that technology is capable of controlling and even dehumanizing us as a race….
Working in the World: A Conversation with The Art Guys
Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth met in 1982 while they were students at the University of Houston. They began making work together the following year, and, after graduating in 1994, they started to exhibit together under the nom de guerre The Art Guys….
Misbehaving in Miami: A Conversation with Jac Leirner
Sao Paulo-based artist Jac Leirner is a complete creature of the global economy. She is an enthusi- astic some would say rapacious-consumer:…see the full feature in January/Februarys magazine.
Elliptical Narratives: A Conversation with Una Walker
I met Una Walker a year before her graduation from Ulster Polytechnic, supervising her thesis and watching her construct a kind of floor sculpture-cum-installation (Finite and Bounded) at Lombard Street, Belfast. In the tight wires and exact geometry of this work, which sat at the end of an elongated room like an altarpiece, I recognized some dominant qualities—precise
Wellington Reiter’s Visitor Station for the DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, Mass. Frank Gehry started it: an explosion of architectural forms, a divorce between form and function that freed the designer to experiment with sculptural qualities. The new visitor station at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, designed by Wellington Reiter, is an understated version of Gehry’s modus operandi, but we have to count it in
Suspended in Time: A Conversation with Yolanda Gutiérrez
Yolanda Gutiérrez, a young Mexican artist, has already exhibited in Paris at the prestigious Jeu de Paume and at the Galerie Yvonamor Palix….see the full review in December’s magazine.
Hepworth, Hirst and Hatoum in Tehran
How is it possible to bring an exhibition of 20th-Century art whose fundamental objective predominantly has been to challenge if not undermine authority to a country with one of the most restrictive and inhibitive societal systems in the world?
The Buck Stops Here: A Conversation with Ken Little
For the past 35 years, Ken Little has been working with a wide range of materials and methods including ceramics, cast iron, bronze, neon, belts, shoes, and dollar bills….see the full feature in December’s magazine.
