Plant Art: Is There Room to Grow?
Artists using flora as their medium address major social and aesthetic issues….see the full review in June’s magazine.
Disjunctions in Nature and Culture: Andy Goldsworthy
Three Cairns demonstrates several important aspects of Goldsworthy’s career. East Coast Cairn/Made Between High Tides/No Collapses/Calm/New Rochelle, New York/November 2001, 2001. Stone. Set of 13 unique Cibachrome prints. Photo: Courtesy Galerie Lelong and Haines Gallery. Andy Goldsworthy’s work receives accolades for its lack of manufacture.
Natural Time and Human Experience: Andy Goldsworthy’s Dialogue with Modernity
In southern England’s West Sussex, the roads, lanes, and paths are quieter and more distinctively rural than the eastern parts of the region. Although the famous east-west chalk escarpment of the South Downs’ hills straddles the entire county, there’s no competing urban center to match the frenetic pace and gloss of Brighton.
American History Is Not What It Appears to Be: A Conversation with Liza Lou
Liza Lou is an artist who self-consciously examines and employs notions of seduction to examine American history, daily life, and the hidden values and terrors lurking beneath the glittering surfaces of the products we consume. Using glass beads, Swarovski crystal, and papier mâché forms, Lou probes the varied ways that our culture literally conceals its dullness
Ann Hamilton’s lignum in context(s)
View of Ann Hamilton wrapping thread. In 1985, while a graduate student at the Yale School of Art and Architecture,Ann Hamilton created her first installation/performance, the space between memory. In this early work, Hamilton introduced speech as an element in the composition: a woman, suspended in a tilted and moving porch swing, spoke quietly in
The Intimate and the Communal: Costantino Nivola
Nivola wove together contradictory private and public trends in his mature sculpture…see the full review in May’s magazine.
