In 2000, Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Laureate atmospheric chemist, declared that we were no longer living in the era of the Holocene, the Recent Era, but rather in the Anthropocene, an era that had started in the 1790s when a layer of carbon began to be laid down worldwide by humans burning coal.
Storytelling As Life Cycle: A Conversation with Keith Edmier
Born on the South Side of Chicago in 1967, Keith Edmier grew up in the suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry creating make-up special effects.
Lost In Eden: A Conversation with Jean-Michel Othoniel
On May 12, 2015, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel celebrated the official opening of his grand fountain sculptures at Versailles, the former home of Louis XIV. The three monumental glass sculptures are sited within the newly renovated Water Theatre Grove created by landscape designer Louis Benech.
Nobuho Nagasawa: The Poetics of Place and Time
Through sculpture, Nobuho Nagasawa expresses the concept of transporting the self, from pre-life to afterlife, on a vessel of light, bringing art into a realm where historical events, personal existence, and spiritual insights meet. Nagasawa was born in Japan, but she received her master’s degree in Berlin in 1985 and has been living in the
Wrong Way Time: Fiona Hall at the Australian Pavilion
The 56th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for Australia as it unveils a new pavilion designed by the studio Denton Corker Marshall, which replaces the temporary structure designed in 1988 by Philip Cox.
Shilpa Gupta: Finding Common Threads
24:00:01, 2012. Motion flapboard, 69.56 x 9.83 x 11 in. Interactive and engaging, Shilpa Gupta’s works draw viewers in, provoking them to think, take their experience with them, and act. Each object and installation picks up on thought-provoking issues—political, social, and economic concerns that are part of daily life.
The Space In Between: A Conversation with Charles Ray
Over the past 40 years, Charles Ray has produced a majestic array of artistic touchstones within the contemporary sculptural vernacular. His orchestrated relationships between space and objects tempt the senses and baffle perceptual longings. Ray’s sculptures are the result of deeply considered compositions often requiring extraordinary amounts of labor, sometimes years in the making.
Army of One: A Conversation with Richard Jackson
One of the most radical American artists of the last 40 years, Los Angeles-based Richard Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting into almost unimaginable dimensions. His wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent takes on “action” painting have dramatically extended its performative and spatial reach, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an
Dread Scott: Radical Conscience
On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide, 2014 Dread Scott’s edict is make “revolutionary art—to propel history forward.” Since the early 1990s, after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completing the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Scott has joined the ranks
Nan Smith: Symbols of Devastation
Nan Smith is an ambitious artist. Over the years, she has increased her command of the ceramic medium, extended her range of techniques and media, and set herself more demanding goals. A full professor in the ceramics program at the University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History, she has also served as head
