The inventiveness, wit, craft, and thoughtfulness of Westermann’s work continue to influence contemporary art …see the full review in May/June’s magazine.
Icons and Interventions in Chicago and the Potential of Public Art
A temporary installation by Suzanne Lacy, Full Circle (from “Culture in Action”), 1993. Boulders and bronze. John McWilliams Chicago’s public art demonstrates the diversity and the difficulties inherent in public art in the 1990s. The tourist version of Chicago has at its core the towering steel untitled female head by Pablo Picasso, a huge abstracted
Off the Pedestal: Chicago and Public Sculpture, 1965 to 1975
The first generation of contemporary public sculpture in the United States had its origins in artist-organized outdoor sculpture exhibitions …see the full review in May/June’s magazine.
Richard Hunt: Freeing the Human Soul
Chi Town Totem, 1997. Bronze, 102 x 38 x 38 in. As a public artist, Richard Hunt is known as a creator of abstract metal works, each a unique shrine to the human spirit. With over 30 public works in the Chicago area alone, one Hunt aficionado noted, “you kind of bump into them all
The Shape of Art at the End of the Century
Toland Grinnell, Mast, 1996-97. Glass and vinyl, 39 x 41 x 142 in. Basilico Fine Arts, New York. “The End of the Century” reads like the story of the Titanic-it is loaded with baggage and going down fast.
Sculpture’s Phantoms in the Public Sphere
Antoine-Denis Chaudet, The Vendôme Column (a 19th-century stereo souvenir showing the column’s base after its demolition in 1871 by the Commune of Paris). Contemporary debates over the nature of public art are often haunted by a romantic fascination with an imagined past of social cohesion founded in part on a population’s univocal approval of its
