For the past five years, Art Basel has organized Art Unlimited, a contemporary art event that offers artists a venue to display works that go beyond the space possibilities of ordinary art exhibitions. Last year, 69 projects were selected from 130 submissions.
Isaac Witkin’s Recent Work: Return to First Principles
To say that Isaac Witkin has had a long and distinguished career is, for once, not simply a useful cliché. Four decades ago, in the early days of “swinging London,” the young Witkin and a group of his equally young friends, all recent graduates of St.
A Space of Her Own: Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle’s final site-specific work, Queen Califia’s Magical Circle (2003), stands on the outskirts of Escondido, a town backed by rugged mountains, hidden between Los Angeles and San Diego….see the full feature in November’s magazine.
Collecting New Orleans: A Conversation with Sydney Besthoff
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.
