Atlanta Together with two commissioned sculptures…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Seizing the Chaos of Life: A Conversation with Peter Buggenhout
Peter Buggenhout’s large, abstract sculptures force us to re-think the nature of art. They engage with the abject, with formlessness and chaos, preferring a jumbled reality to the order of symbolic systems. Covered with sometimes disturbing organic materials or dust, his works grow from a process of accretion; they are about transformation and, elliptically, about
Building New Topias: A Conversation with Pedro Reyes
The methods employed by an artist in producing a body of work are often made up of intricate and personal associations that may confound the way a viewer assimilates knowledge. Pedro Reyes, architect, cultural agent, and artist, employs simple means: objects and casual scenarios that blend the realms of utopia, psychology, function, individual fantasies, and
Reality Check: When Appropriation Becomes Copyright Infringement
In this day and age, what does an artist really need to know about copyright? What exactly can legally and ethically be claimed as one’s copyright—and as copyright infringement? And how to make sense of news reports in December 2008 of a demand sent to a 16-year-old collage artist in London for appropriating a photo
Marianne Weil
New York Someone not already familiar with the sculpture of…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Catherine Burgess: Eloquent Enigmas
“Austere, elegant. Uncompromising, ambiguous. Stern, seductive. Lucid, mysterious. Lean, sumptuous.” This stream of adjectives comes from notes that I took on my most recent visit to Catherine Burgess’s studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The inherent contradictions in this list are not indications of indecisiveness on my part or that of the artist.
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado
New York Since 2000, Exit Art has repositioned itself…see the full review in June’s magazine.
Carl Andre
New York It is difficult to look at Carl Andre’s current work…see the full review in June’s magazine.
“In Pursuit of the Masters”
Dallas Marking the fifth anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center…see the full review in June’s magazine.
2008 Taipei Biennial
Taipei The Taipei Biennial, like other biennials across…see the full review in June’s magazine.
