Since the 1970s, Sydney and Walda Besthoff have specialized in collecting modern and contemporary sculpture, in addition to photorealist painting. In November 2003, the five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden opened at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Playing It Straight, Upside-Down, and Backwards: A Conversation With John Scott
He sits before me, legs crossed, hands folded over one another like the wings of a giant bird, white beard and hair curling up from beneath a baseball cap. John Scott is 64. This would-be monk and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award has come to Aspen, Colorado, from his native New Orleans to teach
Constructing the Hieratic Object: Carol Ross
This has been an eventful year for Carol Ross, a sculptor whose steady artistic growth seems to be rewarded by , recognition in equal proportion….see the full feature in October’s magazine.
The International Sculpture Center 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The lnternatronal Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. This year’s awards program attracted a record number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Christopher Saucedo: A Play on the “Real”
Christopher Saucedo, Temple-Arcade, 1/4 scale replica (unassembled), 2004. Cast aluminum, 22 x 57.5 x 6.5 in. Ludic in temper, New Orleans sculptor Christopher Saucedo makes art that might be described as Postmodernist fun. While nodding respectfully at Rodin, Brancusi, and a host of others, he draws from wide-ranging sources both popular and learned, posing mischievous queries
The Body Disembodied: New Directions in Modernist Sculpture
The four sculptors united by this article- Vincent Barré, Willard Boepple, Clay Ellis, and John Gibbons-do not constitute a group in the usual sense….see the full review in October’s magazine.
