Buenos Aires Claudia Aranovich’s work is a battlefield…see the full review in Jan/Feb’s magazine.
Will the Economic Turmoil Affect Public Art Programs?
Karin Wulf had some good news to report: a proposal made by a member of the Board of Estimates in early October to eliminate the City of Madison’s (Wisconsin) $30,000 expenditure on public art, part of an effort to trim the municipal budget, was soundly defeated.
Waltz of the Apparitions: A Conversation with Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin’s sculpture is often imponderable. Because the works are rarely wholly abstract, they seem to want to mean something, to hint at allegory—but do they really have to be something other than what they are as things, as untainted lyric?
Jan Fabre at the Louvre
Context determines meaning. When artworks are placed in unusual situations and combined in unexpected ways, new patterns emerge from the juxtaposition. Contrasts of type, size, shape, material, composition, motif, texture, color, content, and meaning restructure information and introduce new dialogues.
Vincenzo Vela: The Politics of the Figure
Every day thousands of people pass by one of the most historically and aesthetically significant monuments of 19th-century sculpture without any knowledge of its existence. Even among art-interested people, few if any have heard of Vincenzo Vela, the artist responsible for Victims of Labor, this curiously invisible monument, which stands at the southern entrance to
Susan Robb
Seattle Seattle artist Susan Robb recently heated things up…see the full review in Jan/Feb’s magazine.
Sculpture at Evergreen 2008
Baltimore The Evergreen Museum & Library is a cultural…see the full review in January/February’s magazine.
Rune Olsen: Revising Natural and Sculptural History
Rune Olsen’s beautifully composed, often shocking, masking tape-covered sculptures are some of the most visually seductive and physically intriguing figurative works being produced today. His three-dimensional tableaux, representing man and beast in various positions of sexual dominance and compliance, interweave personal narrative with mind-expanding revelations about natural science.
