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.
“I am a Transmitter, I Radiate”: Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys does not age well. His genius could kindle a flame in a “revolutionary age,” yet at the inception of the third millennium, he appears literally buried in his private mythologies, distilled from life events, and centered on his pet animals as exponents of purity and victirns of civilization.
Planning for Happenstance: Dewitt Godfrey
If the sculptor DeWitt Godfrey were to write a manifesto, it might begin with the saying, “Let the chips fall where they may.” …see the full feature in May’s magazine.
Responsive Construction: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Bruce Beasley is recognized as one of the most innovative sculptors on the West Coast …see the full feature in May’s magazine.
Fire Medicine: A Conversation with Cai Guo-Qiang
The son of a historian and a painter, Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, China, in 1957, and trained in stage design before moving to Japan in 1987. …see the full feature in May’s magazine.
Movement in Progress: A Conversation with Arnaldo Pomodoro
Novecento, 2000–02. Bronze, 21 x 7 meters diameter. Photo: © Alberto Piovano, Milan. Laura Tansini: How did it happen that the City of Rome commissioned Novecento? Arnaldo Pomodoro: It was in 1998, when Francesco Rutelli was mayor of Rome, at the re-installation of my work Sfera Grande in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after its
Photographs of Public Artworks by Anish Kapoor and Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Copyright Infringement?
Over the past 30-plus years of the public art movement, artworks in public settings have added beauty, interest and, in some instances, controversy to the civic arena. For photographers and plein air painters, however, they may also be adding the threat of a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
Nek Chand Saini: Sculpting From Scrap
I stood surrounded by hundreds of strange beings, fantastical creatures arrayed around me in every direction. …see the full feature in April’s magazine.
