Those who read the finance and science pages of their newspapers know that Bristol-Myers Squibb defines itself as “a global pharmaceutical and related health care products company whose mission is to extend and enhance human life.” Traditionally,
“Presence of Light”
Beth Galston, Ice Forest, 2000-2003. Urethane resin and monofilament, 8 x 8 x 4 ft. In the early 1960s sculpture went electric. Dan Flavin’s assemblages of linear fluorescent light tubes, arranged as pillars or box constructions, transformed the medium of sculpture from mass into luminescence, competing with painting’s ability to model light with color.
54th Carnegie International Carnegie Museum of Art
Katarzyna Kozyra, The Rite of Spring, 1999/2004. Six-channel video installation; color, sound. The 54th Carnegie International opened with a gala, red carpet celebration at the Carnegie Museum of Art with Peter Fonda, John Waters, and Baron Phillippe and Baroness Marion Lambert in attendance.
Zachary Coffin: Forming a Limited Liability Corporation for the Support of New Work
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
