Byars travels to Oxford University to discover which questions exist in the Faculty of Philosophy. He meets the expert on Wittgenstein, J.I.M. Anscombe at home with her children. He speaks to two doctoral candidates who are studying event identity and the difference between extraordinary event and miracle.
Into the Light: A Conversation with James Turrell
The retrospective exhibition “James Turrell: Into the Light,” on view through April 2003 at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, showcases Turrell’s life-long investigations of light, space, and perception, including three pieces from the Mattress Factory’s permanent collection and models from his monumental Roden Crater Project.
The International Sculpture Center 2002 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The lnternational Sculpture center is proud to present the winners of the 2002 outstanding Student Achievement in contemporary Sculpture Award’ This year’s award program attracted a record number of 213 nominees from 89 college and university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Sculpture, Education, and Community: College Art Galleries
These galleries can integrate art into the lives of students as well as the public…see the full review in October’s magazine.
Inscription and Testimony: Public Art and Shared Experiences
Public art can articulate what has been forgotten, obscured, or overlooked…see the full review in October’s magazine.
Collecting Experience: A Conversation with Steven Oliver
Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 1998–99. Cast concrete, 30 in. wide; .5 miles long Photo: Wardell Photography. Entering the Oliver Ranch on a narrow climbing road, one suddenly encounters hundreds of white concrete steps cascading down the hill, crossing the road, and continuing below.
Declaring, Defining, Dividing Space: A Conversation with Richard Serra
Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001. Weatherproof steel, 142 x 447 x 125 in.Photo: Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery. “Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres,” the artist’s most extensive exhibition of major sculpture in New York since his 1986 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, took place last fall at the Gagosian
Public Space and Private Investigation: A Conversation with Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry
Their work focuses on difficult issues of political and social injustice…see the full review in September’s magazine.
A South African Microcosm: The Sculpture of David Brown
Brown’s work mines the schisms of the fractured society of today’s South Africa….see the full review in September’s magazine.
Abstraction and Empathy, Once Again
In sculpture the problematic of art as such is most explicit…see the full review in September’s magazine.
