An elderly, gray-haired man wearing a blue suit stands with one foot ahead of the other: you feel age pressing on his body but also note his calm resolve. A child with a slightly concerned expression, nervous shoulders, and turned-in feet seems at once brave and scared; a young woman in bright, circa-1970s clothing, including
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Tracey Emin
New York Lehmann Maupin “l’m fucked up. l’m 35. l’m childless. l’m anorexic. l’m neurotic. l’m psychotic…Everyday I try to sort it out,” proclaims Tracey Emin in her tell-all confessional video, interviewed by herself-adopting a second role-Emin takes on questions about her public persona and her private-turned-public life.
Marek Chlanda
Kraków, Poland The Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Marek Chlanda’s retrospective exhibition (1978-1999) presents a diverse assortment of drawings and sculptures in which he engages dissimilar materials to produce an idiosyncratic melange of art. Thefirst decade especially represents an important period for Polish artists.
Alfredo Jaar
Fort Lauderdale
Spoleto Festival 1999
Charleston
Signs and Wonders
A number of contemporary artists explore the liminal world between the technical and the human while also demonstrating a millennial longing for transcendence….see the full review in December’s magazine.
Basel Art Fair 1999
Overwrought artophiles who trekked to Basel on the tall of the Venice Biennale were not disappointed… for the full review see the print edition of November 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Venice Museo Civico Correr Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen welcome visitors to their Coner Museum retrospective with Lions Tail (1999) … for the full review see the print edition of 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
