PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Art Alliance It isn’t often that an artist’s intent coalesces seamlessly with the viewer’s experience, but this was indeed the case in Diane Pepe’s recent exhibition, “Connections.”
Hasan Elahi
SAN FRANCISCO Intersection for the Arts San Francisco has been synonymous with political activism since the 1960s, and Intersection for the Arts was right there with her. Since its inception in 1965, Intersection has upheld a rich and varied tradition of supporting work that is actively engaged with political and cultural events.
Jaume Plensa
WEST BRETTON, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park Jaume Plensa’s work provides an antidote to a capitalist world driven by economic principles that treat human beings as largely expendable commodities.
Christopher Janney: Defying Dimensions
Christopher Janney knows few limits in his work beyond the speed of light and our ability to hear sound. He defies the idea of dimension, though in almost every case, his interventions help shape, or at least define, the space they inhabit—not really a contradiction in terms.
Lin Emery: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and Time
Originality has an inside and an outside. Understanding the nature of originality in sculpture requires an understanding of both—of the inside, what it is in the sculptor’s life that created her artistic personality, and the outside, what sets her work apart from that of other artists of similar inclination.
Richard Tuttle
NEW YORK The Pace Gallery The wizardry of Richard Tuttle’s work lies in his visionary use of materials and found objects that, by themselves, do not offer much visual appeal.
Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra
BASEL Fondation Beyeler At first glance, the works of Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra have little in common. Serra’s work is an elegantly restrained analysis of how form can define and even dominate a space.
Dispatch: Israel Museum
Walking up the grand promenade of the refreshed and expanded, $100 million, 20-acre campus of the Israel Museum is exhilarating, even exalting. Approximately five years in the planning and execution, the museum’s 45th-anniversary building project is the most ambitious cultural development enterprise in Israel’s history.
