Sooner or later, anyone approaching Paul Neagu’s sculpture is bound to experience the challenge of his Hyphens. The prototype resembled an unconventional workbench or an easel for making objects or drawings. It was first exhibited in 1975 at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, where it generated much attention and curiosity.
Whiting Tennis
Seattle About five years ago Whiting Tennis was…see the full review in October’s magazine.
YSP @ 30: The 30-Year Journey of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Andy Goldsworthy
This year Yorkshire Sculpture Park marks its 30th birthday. As a central part of its celebrations, the park is hosting the largest Andy Goldsworthy exhibition to date in Britain, a perfect selection since the artist began his post-art-school work in 1977.
Sculpture by the Way: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg met in January 1970, during the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art’s Oldenburg retrospective (the show was organized in 1969 by the Museum of Modern Art). At the time, van Bruggen, a well-known art historian, writer, and curator, was a member of the curatorial staff at the Stedelijk.
Emerging Art at The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi International Arts Center
“To some degree, we have a ‘do it well and they will come’ theory,” Francis Greenburger, the founder of Omi International Arts Center (Art Omi), said recently. “We’re less concerned about large numbers than about being an important venue for the type of art that we’re exhibiting.
Anselm Kiefer’s Falling Stars
“Monumenta” is a new annual exhibition conceived around a building: the Grand Palais in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées at the Avenue Winston Churchill. Originally built in 1900 for the Paris Exposition, the great glass and steel structure suffered from neglect over time and was closed in 1993 after a glass roof panel fell.
Casting George
Preoccupied as George Segal was with formal issues such as volume and voids, surface and color, he was at heart a storyteller, a creator of parables in which ordinary events took on extraordinary connotations. Though most of the subjects and themes he portrayed were reflections of the world around him, he universalized and, on occasion,
The Controversy That Wouldn’t Die: Tilted Arc and the Triumph of Spectacle
It has been 18 years since Tilted Arc (1981) was removed from Federal Plaza, eight years after the General Services Administration (GSA) installed it adjacent to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan. At the time, it was the subject of countless articles in the popular and art press and subsequently the subject
Water Mirror: A Conversation with Ichi Ikeda
Japanese sculptor and performance artist Ichi Ikeda uses water as his main medium, a choice strongly connected to global environmental problems. Recognizing that water is one of the Earth’s most precious resources, Ikeda is dedicated to raising global awareness of water conservation through international conferences, community activism, public performances, and interactive installations.
Reading Paper: A Conversation with Jae Ko
Korean-born Jae Ko studied at Toyo Art School and Wako University in Tokyo, where she earned a BFA in 1988. Ten years later, she completed her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
