New York Tony Smith, who died in 1980…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Thaddeus Mosley
Pittsburgh Thaddeus Mosley is a tenacious…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Michael Olijnyk
Pittsburgh Visitors to “Environments,” an arrangement…see the full review in November’s magazine.
HorseHead 9
Duvall, WA At a remote King County location…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Agnes Deli
Budapest Agnes Deli, one of Hungary’s…see the full review in November’s magazine.
Dispatch: Sculpture Projects Münster ’97
Münster In a season of important European exhibitions, this one stands out as particularly innovative and compelling. As with the two previous incarnations of the exhibition in 1977 and 1987, the works contributed by the 70-plus participating artists were either outdoors or at sites otherwise not known as art venues-the whole exhibition, in fact, had
Dispatch: documenta X
Kassel Over its 40-year history, documenta has served many agendas. In the years following World War II it countered Hitler’s denunciation of “degenerate” Modernism as well as the competitive polemics of the Cold War by promoting the values and marketability of European and American abstraction and Pop art.
Dispatch: The Venice Biennale
Venice The Venice Biennale 47th International Art Exhibition I arrived in Venice two days before the opening of the Biennale, intending to get some rest and relaxation before the games began and to reacquaint myself with this magical place.
An Interview with Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 1998. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. The Basque Liberties Plaza, 1980. Reinforced concrete and steel.
Reactionary Transactions
Rei Naito, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Matthew Ngui, and Christine Hill discuss the summer’s art events and the artists’ attempts to bridge the gap between object and viewer. Technology was rife in this summer’s big three European exhibitions-the Venice Biennale, documenta X, and Sculpture Projects Münster-but several young artists seemed intent upon interpersonal transactions with their audience,
