Valérie Blass: It’s a Surface Situation

Valérie Blass turns everyday matter into an exposure of the psychic drift of our times. By building a hybridity into the things she fabricates, she causes us to question our perception of what is there. Deux assemblages crédibles à partir de mon environnement immédiat (2007), shown in the first Quebec Triennial at Montreal’s Musée d’art

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Richard Serra’s Paris Promenade

Last spring, Monumenta transformed the historic Grand Palais in Paris for the second time, inviting Richard Serra to engage with the cavernous 145,000-square-foot volume that defines Henri Deglane’s 19th-century glass cathedral. By sponsoring these high-profile, site-specific interventions by contemporary artists (Anselm Kiefer was the first), the French government has restored the viability, public function, and

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Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz

For the past decade, Alyson Shotz has created sculptures and installations for public and private spaces in which light, texture, and material evoke sensations of movement and dynamism and create new and unexpected visual perceptions. Widely shown in the United States, she has exhibited at a number of major institutions, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art

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