Dispatch: “Volume and Form”

Singapore Vincent Leow, Money Suit, 1992. Mixed media, from the “Imaging Selves” exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum Singapore, still the quintessential Asian crossroads city and now a booming tribute to the Asian Miracle (even after the Asian Economic Disaster), has enthusiastically embraced the concept of Cultural Tourism as an economic engine.

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Athena Tacha

Gainesville, FL University Gallery, University of Florida Athena Tacha’s Sealed Memories (to E.H.J.) was a site-specific installation that filled the entire gallery space of the University Gallery at the University of Florida. Viewers entered the darkened gallery and progressed towards the dimly lit portal of a large enclosed structure, which formed an uncommon maze through

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Yinka Shonibare

Birmingham, England lkon Gallery Over the past few years, Yinka Shonibare has increasingly gained attention with his work shown in London, including the Royal Academy’s “Sensation” in 1997, and his participation in various group shows around the globe.

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Dispatch: “Artranspennine98”

England Ulrich Ruckriem, Untitled, 1998. Stone, 10 pieces in all. Two views of site-specific project. Artranspennine98 was a ragbag of roughly 40 projects, 50 artists, and 30 sites that took place throughout the notional transpennine region in Great Britain, which spans Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull.

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Jyung Mee Park

Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery of Art First impressions are rarely so misleading as in the case of an initial encounter with Jyung Mee Park’s sculpture. On entering her recent installation, one glimpses crystalline perfection: quartz-facetedsurfaces glowing with an almost cold, internal light.

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Mona Hatoum

Basel Kunsthalle The Kunsthalle is, arguably, Basel’s emptiest exhibition space-and that means something in this capital of minimal art. The admission charge is more than that of the Kunstmuseum (medieval to modern) and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst (contemporary) combined, but a visit to the Kunsthalle generally lasts less than an hour.

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