Reinhard Mucha

New York Luhring Augustine Gallery Allow me to spread my cards on the table. I consider Reinhard Mucha to be among our most impressive contemporary sculptors. I first encountered one of his works about 30 years ago, and that experience has stayed with me ever since—despite seeing truckloads of contemporary art and the fact that

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Sarah Sze

Philadelphia The Fabric Workshop and Museum In Lines: A Brief History, anthropologist Tim Ingold observes, “What is a thing, or indeed a person, if not a tying together of the lines—the paths of growth and movement—of all the many constituents gathered there?”

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Franz Erhard Walther

New York Peter Freeman, Inc. I first discovered Franz Erhard Wal­ther’s work in a copy of Avalanche magazine at a newsstand in Harvard Square in 1972. Black and white photographs of Werksatz (1963–69) revealed his use of fabric as a medium to make sculpture.

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Peter Buggenhout

New York Gladstone Gallery Peter Buggenhout’s recent show, “Caterpillar Logic II,” acknowledged the process that transforms a homely creature into a delicate, beautiful butterfly. An equally striking, if not conventionally beautiful transition occurs in these works—two very large sculptures that, in their complexity, weight, and size, border on installation.

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Florida Sarasota Season of Sculpture 2014

Sarasota Season VII Every two years, the Sarasota Season of Sculpture, headed by Susan McLeod, installs sculptures on Bay­front Drive between the attractive waterfront walkway and the busy Tamiami Trail. This year, curators Fayanne Hayes and Andrew Maass selected 18 sculptures by eight artists; one sculptor had as many as six pieces included, others were

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“Other Primary Structures”

New York The Jewish Museum In 1966, Kynaston McShine presented “Primary Structures: Younger Ameri­can and British Sculptors” at the Jewish Museum. The show introduced barely known artists, including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt, who worked in a pared-down visual language soon dubbed Mini­m­­al­ism.

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Eli Bornstein

Saskatoon and Winnipeg, Canada Mendel Art Gallery and the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba Perception lies at the heart of Eli Bornstein’s 60-year career, spent in unwavering fidelity to the trinity of color, light, and structure.

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Sam Keogh

Dublin Kerlin Gallery The Kerlin Gallery in central Dublin is a long, narrow, and tricky space that requires careful or clever handling. Sam Keogh, a young Irish artist exhibiting his first solo show there, worked that space extremely well.

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Susan Philipsz

Dusseldorf Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Standhaus Fraught chords and choked notes from unseen instruments fill three galleries. In two of the spaces, recorded string sounds emerge from black electronic speakers mounted in a serpentine line across a long white wall, while a floor-level speaker offers unexpected horn noises.

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