Two Columns, 1998. Aluminum, left column 82 x 10 x 10 in.; right column 81 x 12 x 12 in. Gloria Kischís cavernous studio occupies the basement of an office building near Saint Marks Place in lower Manhattan.
Burke Paterson
New York
Kiki Smith
Washington D.C.
Jonathan Shahn
New York
Claudia Fitch: Just Beautiful
Claudia Fitch wants her work to “be as beautiful as Lucille Ball.” This desire both reveals and conceals the complex character of her artistic strategy; this beauty is the beauty of Formica finishes, Maybelline-lacquered fingernails, and the loveliness of the home-perm.
Museums at the Millennium
Corporate sponsorship of museum exhibitions is creating a romanticized, sanitized, and aestheticized urban landscape …see the full review in September’s magazine.
Christel Dillbohner and Lothar Schmitz
Los Angeles
Yukinori Yanagi
Irvine, CA