April 2009

The Romance of Objects: A Conversation with Carol Bove

Carol Bove’s first installations, beginning around 2003, were hailed as resonant exhumations of the culture of the 1960s, filled with objects evocative of that era—books that helped define the zeitgeist, fragile drawings of pop icons like Twiggy and Mia Farrow, and artifacts that showed a preference for cottage-industry crafts over mass-produced goods.

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Ernest Daetwyler: Bubbles and Bombs

For one busy week in August 2008, the Swiss/Canadian artist Ernest Daetwyler collected used furniture from all over Darmstadt, a German city famous for its Art Deco Buildings and the impressive Beuys Block. Darmstadt is also home to Ute Ritschel, a very active curator who organizes many community projects, among them “Vogelfrei,” international exhibitions in

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Chicago: Sculpture Town

Carl Sandburg’s “city of the big shoulders” has established itself as a city of big art, and it maintains a passionate, occasionally contentious, and fondly attentive relationship with its sculpture. In 1967, Chicago dedicated one of the first—if not the first—contemporary, monumental, non-memorial public sculptures in the United States in its city hall plaza, a

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