Oshawa, Canada The Robert McLaughlin Gallery The sculptures featured in “Fear and Faith,” Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill’s recent exhibition, seemed to be the unsettling, if inadvertent, offspring of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman (1999/2003), a 30-foot-tall bronze spider bearing a sac of 26 pure white marble eggs under her belly (there is a version in front
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Brendan Jamison
London London Festival of Architecture Neo Bankside, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, is a new residential development adjacent to Tate Modern on the South Bank of London. As a contribution to the London Festival of Architecture (and a rather astute PR exercise), developers Native Land and Grosvenor commissioned Irish sculptor Brendan Jamison to
Action and Spatial Engagement: A Conversation with Frank Stella
Frank Stella was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2011. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Frank Stella, who is honored this year with the International Sculpture Center’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, will always be best remembered for his radical Black Paintings (1958-60), which consist of
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Allegories of Time
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s recent sculpture reveals a type of allegorical theater. Her well-known Walking Figures project an ironic expressive content while retaining a formal rigor. Paradoxically, these massive sculptural figurations imply a quiet anonymity. Headless and armless, the inscrutably vital, masculine figures mostly stand upright, modeled in a strident pose.
Inside the Worlds of the Dead: A Conversation with Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski’s ideas often germinate over time and address notions involving time. In 2005, he used his own heartbeat in a pitch-black void for a Paris exhibition. Heartbeats also provided a soundtrack for his recent large-scale installations in Paris, New York, and Milan and are being collected worldwide for Les Archives du Coeur (The Heart Archive), on
Yoshitomo Nara: Making Space for Misfits
Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami began to get international recognition at almost the same time, both admired for their childhood/pop culture imagery. Nara had a bit of a head start, particularly in Europe, since he was living in Germany from 1988 to 2000.
Nothing is More or Less Alive: A Conversation with Eduardo Kac
Since the early 1980s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced “Katz”) has created challenging combinations of the biological, the technological, and the linguistic, raising important questions about the cultural impact and ethical implications of biotechnologies. An innovator and pioneer of forms, he began experimenting in the pre-Web ’80s with works that used telerobotics—systems of remote communication linking software,
“Material Worlds”
Banbridge, Northern Ireland FE. McWilliam Gallery Group sculpture shows are a comparative rarity now in Ireland. This one, featuring nine artist, eight of them Irish, wasn’t remotely representative of what is happening in Irish sculpture at the moment.
Sculpture at Evergreen 6
Baltimore Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum& Library “Simultaneous Presence,” the sixth iteration of Sculpture at Evergreen, included 10 site-specific installations. Working in dialogue with the 26-acre Garrett estate at Johns Hopkins and its rich 150-year history, participating artists have the opportunity to interact not only with natural and architectural environments, but also with diverse collections.
HarborArts
Boston Boston Harbor Shipyard Gallery Its advocates call it a gallery, but any resemblance to a standard art gallery is slim. Boston Harbor Shipyard is a gritty, working marina and shipbuilding facility, poorly suited to art viewing.
