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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Gregory Gómez
Boston Is wall sculpture sculpture? lt fails the test of…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Ross Knight: Sculptural Moments
Ross Knight came to New York City in 1989 after completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He had been accepted at Cal Arts and was ready to go, but he had also gotten into the studio program at P.S.1.
Claire Lieberman
New York and Newark, New Jersey Claire Lieberman’s work is a perfect example of…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Glenn Kaino
Pittsburgh A theatrical absurdity pervaded “Transformer: The Work…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Sarah Lindley and Norwood Viviano
Allendale, Michigan Norwood Viviano and Sarah Lindley explore issues of memory…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Hüseyin Alptekin: Enigmas that Don’t Explain and Don’t Complain
Hüseyin Alptekin promised to explain his enigmatic works to me, including Don’t Complain, the installation he produced as Turkey’s representative to the 2007 Venice Biennale. We began to correspond (he was pleased by my attempts at a Foucauldian archaeology of his work), and we seemed about to uncover the quintessential stratum that would explain all the
Joan Winter
Dallas Joan Winter makes provocative work that seems…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Richard Hunt: Voyage Through Modernism
Richard Hunt was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2009. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Richard Hunt’s sculptural journey began in the 1950s with his startling achievements as a prodigy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Liza Lou: Fragile Security
“I moved to South Africa in order to find another way of working, one which can make a substantial difference to other people’s lives,” Liza Lou says. Her recent barbed-wire-topped cages and disintegrating prayer rug reliefs have glistening glass surfaces that draw attention to borders and skin.
