Through a series of coincidences, I was invited by the municipality of Tehran to serve as a juror for its First International Sculpture Symposium in March 2007. Although hesitant at the outset, I accepted out of a sincere curiosity to see what kind of sculpture was being produced in that part of the world.
Don Gummer
New York At first, Don Gummer’s wooden wall reliefs appear…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Feeding the Spirit of Adventure: A Conversation with Nicholas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley
No research on installation art is complete without a conversation with Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. As founding directors of London’s Museum of Installation (MoI, 1990–2005), an influential nonprofit exhibition space, and authors of the equally influential books, Installation Art (1994) and Installation Art in the New Millennium (2003), their impact is well known.
Jerry Barrish
Schwerin, Germany Over the years, Jerry Barrish has gathered…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Nicola Hicks
New York Horses loom large in the life of British sculptor…see the full review in March’s magazine.
David Rabinowitch
New York For many years, the Canadian sculptor…see the full review in March’s magazine.
Quarryography: New Life in an Old Quarry
Three hundred and sixty million years ago when the granite coast of Maine was forming, the fairies and wood nymphs were planning their debut. A massive rock formation consisting of microcline, plagioclase, and quartz seemed perched at the end of the world—too perfect a place to remain inert.
Poetics and Utopia in Cuban Contemporary Sculpture
Recent exhibitions of Latin American and Caribbean contemporary art have fostered new interest in Cuban art. While the island nation may be isolated politically and economically, its art scene has kept the door open to international influences and exchange.
(Un)Holy Grounds: The Floor Sculptures of Carl Andre and Wolfgang Laib
At first sight, the works of Carl Andre and Wolfgang Laib seem worlds apart—and not just geographically or in terms of the artists’ ages (Andre was born in 1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts; Laib in Metzingen, Germany, in 1950).
Katrín Sigurdardóttir
New York Icelandic artist Katrín Sigurdardóttir uses inexpensive, banaI…see the full review in March’s magazine.
