Just north of Auckland, around a stretch of land known as Gibbs Farm, hills pronounced by endless gullies command a vast stretch of majestic coastal flatland. The landscape, known as the Kaipara Harbor, bears the mark of countless sojourns by past inhabitants, its steep, lolloping hills holding memories of sanguinary battles.
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Lin Tianmiao: The Feminine As It Is and Might Be
It is not hard to understand why Lin Tianmiao is considered one of the leading female sculptors in China: she fashions memorable work that has to do with the female body and mind. Although Lin would be quick to downplay the significance of her role in contemporary art, she has built a career and a
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
TORONTO Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Originally featured at Documenta 12, Phantom Truck by Chicago-based Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle recently made its North American debut.
“Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art”
PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory In 2004, the Mattress Factory presented “CUBA: Artists in Residence,” an exhibition that included site installations by 11 Cuban artists who were denied visas to the U.S.
Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
MIAMI Bass Museum of Art Two of Miami’s most intriguing sculptors, wife and husband Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, recently collaborated on an exhibition at the Bass Museum.
John Gibbons: Abstraction and Being Human
Visitors entering London’s National Portrait Gallery during the eight months between mid-September 2009 and mid-May 2010 were confronted by five mysterious, wall-mounted objects at the top of the long stair leading to the second-floor galleries. “John Gibbons: Portraits” was part of NPG curator Paul Moorhouse’s “Interventions Series,” a program focusing on “20th-century artists who have
Mags Harries
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Mags Harries is interested in starting conversations through sculptural chairs. Occasionally she builds them so people can sit in them and talk, but more often, at least in the works in this show, people will talk about them rather than in them.
Wurrungwuri: Chris Booth at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens
New Zealand artist Chris Booth recently completed a massive installation of undulating sandstone at the Royal Botanic Gardens—350 tons of rock cascading downhill along the shores of Sydney harbor. The wave-like form is an impressive 22 meters long and rises, at its highest, three meters above ground level (not high enough to intimidate the children
Sarah Kabot
AKRON Akron Art Museum In The Matrix, Neo bends and folds the world, wrapping it around to fit his will.
Redefining Limits: A Conversation with Judy Millar
Sarah Gold: At the end of the 1920s, Yervand Kochar initiated discussions about “painting into space.” More recently, the German artists Gotthard Graubner and Katharina Grosse have continued this line of thinking. How did you become interested in space and the painted surface?
