Salt Lake City Utah Museum of Fine Art Artists visiting the state of Utah typically make a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), but they rarely meet the artist head-on, on his own terms. Such was the case, though, with Conrad Bakker’s Robert Smithson Library and Book Club, installed as part of the Utah
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“Surround Audience,” New Museum Triennial 2015
New York newmuseum Gatherings of artists into annuals, biennials, and the like have become so common and so global that they now function, like the equally ubiquitous art fairs, as art shopping malls whose main purpose is spotting the latest fashion or the next big trend.
All Nature Flows Through Us: A Conversation with Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn’s All nature flows through us (2011) is an innovative, 10-meter-diameter sculpture sited in a small river north of Oslo, Norway, at the sculpture park of the Kistefos-Museet. It was no easy feat to install.
Sofie Muller: Mental Sculptures
“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.” Sofie Muller is fond of quoting this statement by Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician and founder of the science of medicine, fascinated by the fact that even
Robert Morris: Navigating the Labyrinth
Robert Morris has had a long and diverse career. Primarily known for his highly regarded sculpture, he has also been an abstract painter, a gifted draftsman, a performance artist, an erudite theorist, a political activist, a long-time college professor, a contributor to Artforum, and the author of a Masters thesis on Form-Classes in the Art
Visualizing Data: A Conversation with Mary Bates Neubauer
Artist, educator, and innovator, Mary Bates Neubauer, the recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2015 Outstanding Educator Award, bridges ancient and cutting-edge technologies. Trained and first hired as a foundry sculptor, she’s broadened her practice at Arizona State University’s sculpture program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where she is a professor
Mariana Castillo Deball
Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof Parergon, an ambitious, operatic installation from Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball, explored the biographies of objects in various Berlin museums, particularly the Nationalgalerie. As the title, which means “supplementary work” or “byproduct,” suggests, the work examined and decrypted the history of these collections, their buildings, exhibits, and protagonists.
Ethereal for Eternity: A Conversation with Alfredo Pirri
Like any sculptor, Alfredo Pirri, who lives and works in Rome, deals with space and form, but he wants his works—solid forms made to last forever—to be immaterial, to appear as ethereal and dematerialized as light and shadow.
Andrea Loefke
Brooklyn Smack Mellon Confronting the prow of Andrea Loefke’s ark head-on made a powerful first impression. This foreshortened view indicated something vast and ominous looming just inside the gallery but offered only the merest hint of what was actually there.
William Tucker
London Pangolin London William Tucker’s monumental bronze sculptures are incredibly difficult to reproduce in photographs. Despite careful lighting and the judicious use of close-ups, most catalogues do not succeed in being more than an aide-mémoire.
