Marfa, TX Richard Long, Sea Lava Circles, 1988. Icelandic rocks, 13.5 ft. dia. Donald Judd Estate, Todd Eberle C 1993. No matter how loud political art shrieks against it or how determined revisionists are to denigrate its formal qualities, Minimalism will not die.
Dispatch: Artfront
Philadelphia Jeffry Faust and Ray Young, Post and Beam, 1997. Mixed-media installation. One window at a time, Philadelphia is being transformed. Where once graffiti reigned as the dominant art form, a different vision now confronts those who by chance or design find themselves encountering some very different marks on the city’s facade.
Dispatch: Mugger Music
New York Nick Crowe, Graham Parker, Ian Rawlinson, Mugger Music (detail), 1997. Traditionally, public sculpture has been concerned with the search for an appropriateness between an object and a specified civic environment. In Britain at least, a broadening of debates about the nature of public space and some enlightened moments in the allocation of public
Tadashi Kawamata
Paris Salpêtrière Hospital Each fall Paris Festival d’Automne organizes an art event at the Saint-Louis Chapel of the Salpêtrière Hospital… see the print version for the full review.
Robert Gober
Los Angeles The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen has never lost its industrial roots… see the print version for the full review.
Stefan Lindfors
Santa Monica Patricia Correia Gallery at Bergamot Station Stefan Lindfors is Finland’s laureate designer, equally recognized… see the print version for the full review.
Susan Schwartzberg and Ali Sant
San Francisco New Langton Arts The term “Single Room Occupancy” or “SFO” describes a typology of domestic architecture… see the print version for the full review.
Jay Johnson
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Jay Johnson continues to be an inventive and witty presence on the San Diego art scene… see the print version for the full review.
“Brazilian Sculpture”
Washington, D.C. Inter-American Development Bank, Cultural Center This look at modern Brazilian sculpture, hosted by the lnter-American Development Bank (lDB)… see the print version for the full review.
“Enterprise”
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art The art of the closing years of the 20th century evinces the spirit of a degenerated, chaotic society devoid of meaning… see the print version for the full review.
