With its dramatic geography and cinematic past, the Southwest is a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable. Replete with saguaro cactus, howling coyotes, playful roadrunners, and colorful natives of all ethnicities, it’s also cliché land.
New Territories: An Interview with Mary Miss
Mary Miss invites the public to participate in sifting the layers of a site by walking through it, viewing it from different perspectives, and reading its topography…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Christian Boltanski: Traces of the Dead
Christian Boltanski’s haunting, provocative work draws on memory, history, ambiguity, and the presence of death in everyday life…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Ana Mendieta’s Sphere of Influence
Her trailblazing explorations of both feminist and postcolonial concerns in art have made Ana Mendieta an important precursor to many contemporary artists….see the full review in June’s magazine.
Only the Most Valuable Things: An Interview with José Bedia
Untrappable Figure, 1998. Top soil, sand, dry pigment, chain, spray paint, and oil lamp, 17 x 20 x 18 ft. José Bedia is one of the most widely known Cuban artists in the contemporary art world.
The Theater of Life: Ken Unsworth
One could compare the mature work of the Australian artist Ken Unsworth with that of Louise Bourgeois, as they both rely on personal obsessions and a range of potent, recurring symbols: with Bourgeois, her childhood and sexual references; with Unsworth, his wife and her performance as a pianist, as well as death, destruction, and the
Sculptural Conceptualism: A New Reading of the Work of Agnes Denes
Aerial view of Tree Mountain—a Living Time Capsule—10,000 Trees, 10,000 People, 400 Years, 1996. The traditional description of Agnes Denes as a conceptual/environmental artist reflects only a portion of the broad range of interests from which she draws to create her art.
