Harald Szeemann is a standard-bearer of change within the European curatorial tradition. He holds degrees in art history, archaeology, and journalism. Between 1961 and 1969 he served as director of the Kunsthalle Bern. Since he declared his independence by resigning his directorship in 1969, he has become one of the most important and active international
Traversing the Worlds of Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2001. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Nam June Paik endeavors to humanize technology and electronic media, a pursuit evident throughout his prolific, complex, and visionary career.
Object / Installation: The Two Sides of Robert Gober
Two aspects of the work of the artist representing the U.S. in the Venice Biennale …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Learning the Alphabet: A Conversation with Diane Samuels
Her work blends multiple references into precise forms with poetic resonance …see the full feature in June’s magazine.
Hitoshi Nomura: Harnessing the Sun
At 10:55am on Monday, August 23rd, 1999, a car pulled into the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida. Not an unusual event you might think. But this automobile had just traveled 4,895 kilometers from Los Angeles in 26 days without consuming a single gallon of gasoline.
Making the Ideal Real: A Conversation with Wolfgang Laib
For the last 25 years, Wolfgang Laib has explored the enigmatic zone where what we know or believe to exist commingles with what is actually there and can be perceived with our senses. Using materials such as pollen, milk, rice, and beeswax—mostly natural or animal products that involve nourishment and preservation as well as cycles
Archaeology of Time: A Conversation with Claudia Aranovich
One could describe sculptor Claudia Aranovich as Argentine, female, Jewish, artist, feminist, contemporary, in this order or any other. But she has transcended confining attributes by creating a body of work that is surprisingly diverse and beautifully universal: transparent resins acquiring organic, fertile shapes, aluminum masks apparently cast from dead people, small resin friezes hosting
Palpable Color: Beverly Semmes
Semmes’s new work marks a departure from her signature large-scale dresses …see the full feature in May’s magazine.
The Language of Stuff: An Interview with Richard Wentworth
Through joining, inserting, and pairing, Wentworth reroutes the meaning of objects.
Memories in the Material: An Interview with Patricia McKenna
McKenna’s sculptures and site installations create moods of quiet unease.
