“The foundation was laid, the crane was there, everything showed up on time. The piece was lifted up, and it sat exactly the way it was supposed to…It came in sections, we assembled it, and there it was.
The Language of Life: A Conversation with Chakaia Booker
Reconstructed Elements, 2002. Rubber tire and wood, 32 x 36 x 31 in. Photo: Courtesy Dietmar Busse, Marlborough Gallery, NY. Chakaia Booker’s voice is so earthy that one may miss her easy way of pointing to the big picture.
Inexplicable Symbiosis: A Conversation with Janet Cardiff
Cardiff’s installations and site-works redefine space, narrative, and subjectivity…see the full review in January/February’s magazine
Exterior Form – Interior Substance: A Conversation with Xu Bing
A B C …, 1991. Ceramic blocks, 8 x 8 x 24 cm. Photo: Courtesy Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. In his native China, Xu Bing began his career with innovations in printmaking and with some of the first Chinese installation art, including what is perhaps his best-known work, Book from the Sky.
Art in a State of Disquiet and Metamorphosis: Reflections on the Work of Jane Alexander
The work of Jane Alexander remains a powerful index of art and society in South Africa…see the full review in January/February’s magazine
Making the Personal Monumental: A Conversation with Patricia Cronin
Memorial to a Marriage, 2000–01. Carrara marble, 83 x 40 x 27 in. Photo: E.G. Schempf, courtesy Grand Arts, Kansas City. Patricia Cronin’s three-ton marble mortuary sculpture Memorial to a Marriage is heroic in size, scale, and theme.
