New York Siebren Versteeg’s recent show, “Zero is Center,” tore…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Johan Creten
Paris The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature lies…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Isamu Noguchi
West Bretton, Wakefield, U.K. Isamu Noguchi’s philosophy of life and artistic…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Tongue-in-Cheek Eloquence: Dan Webb
At a 2006 solo exhibition at Howard House, Seattle artist Dan Webb displayed a carved wooden balloon in the form of a heart. I Love You solidly captures the buoyancy of a helium balloon while hinting at its brief life expectancy: like people, balloons and their sentiments expire.
Forum: The New Acropolis Museum
If architecture can be seen as sculpture writ large, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens qualifies as a fine example of the form. Housing works so splendid that they echo with meaning millennia after their making, a building of such singing grace, that calls attention to its contents rather than itself, is like a gift
Private Voice, Public Benefit: Lois Teicher
Lois Teicher’s Curved Form with Rectangle and Space (2000) is just what its title describes, a gently bowed piece of sheet steel rising 14 feet from the ground, painted pure white, with a tall, narrow rectangular space cut out of it just to the right of center.
Allan Kaprow, Lawrence Weiner
Los Angeles Two recent shows at the Geffen highlighted…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Chido Johnson
Rochester, Michigan Chido Johnson recently transformed the Oakland University Art Gallery…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.
Evidence of Being: A Conversation with Richard Humann
While Williamsburg can claim no movement as its own, the inventive sculpture of Richard Humann reveals what made the hip Brooklyn neighborhood a creative escape from art world institutionalization and commercialization in the 1990s. Although Williamsburg has recently succumbed to development pressures, driving out mid-level artists at crucial stages in their careers, Humann retains his