Iole Alessandrini: Shaping Light and Space

The Italian architect Iole Alessandrini, who has lived in Seattle since 1996, has completed eight temporary installations in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue, Washington, as well as in Brooklyn, New York. By transforming recycled or disused building sites, the 35-year-old artist has distinguished herself from other architects who have jumped on the public art bandwagon in

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Doing What I Don’t Know: A Conversation with Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro (b. 1924), one of the world’s greatest sculptors, first achieved widespread recognition in the 1960s by revolutionizing accepted sculptural concepts. Although he is best known for his large-scale abstract works in steel, his more recent sculptural language has evolved into powerful installations of numerous components, as seen in works like The Barbarians and

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William Christenberry: The South of Fact and Dream

Any consideration of William Christenberry’s wide-ranging production during the past four decades must take into account the simultaneity of the American South as place and as idea. This odd cultural situation, in which both modes of being co-exist without exact delineation or differentiation, has lodged itself in the regional mind and in a larger cultural

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