New York “Rite of Passage: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism, 1960–1966,” curated by Hubert Klocker, was the first show to present the early years of the Vienna Actionists to a New York audience. Klocker and his academic associate, Gloria Sutton, carefully outlined the importance of these artists—including Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Günter Brus, and
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Enrico David
New York Michael Werner Gallery Idiosyncrasy in contemporary sculpture has a way of communicating pleasure and humor, and Enrico David’s recent show did exactly that. His works play with the figure but also maintain a genuine sculptural intelligence that supports his offbeat themes.
Ted Victoria
New York Robert Miller Gallery Ted Victoria continues to baffle and enlighten viewers with works that explore relationships between actual objects and their photographic representations. Iconic sea monkeys, aswim in projection boxes, along with banal objects sequestered within enigmatic camera obscura constructions, still prevail.
Jane Lackey
Santa Fe, New Mexico Center for Contemporary Art Before we learned to write, we learned to speak. Before it was a language recognized by our tribe, it was sound. Our cries of pleasure and pain were connected to what we experienced in our bodies, and as we quickly learned, those sounds could elicit attention and
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris
North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA In the 18th century, the world’s most common bird may have been Ectopistes migratorius, the passenger pigeon. Estimated at three to five billion in number, these birds made up a quarter of the total avian population in North America when the first European settlers arrived.
Dane Winkler
Washington, DC Hamiltonian Gallery Growing up as the fifth of six children on a working farm in upstate New York is not often the springboard to an artistic vocation. In Dane Winkler’s case, his rural childhood is a constant wellspring of inspiration.
David Altmejd
Paris Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris David Altmejd’s first major exhibition in France was stunning in scope. His strange and exotic forms offer myriad opportunities for viewer interaction, though the mirrors that were so prominent in his installation at the Canadian Pavilion (2007 Venice Biennale) seemed not as evident here.
Waterworks: Metabolic Studio and Watershed Sculpture Rebuild the Desert
In 2000, Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Laureate atmospheric chemist, declared that we were no longer living in the era of the Holocene, the Recent Era, but rather in the Anthropocene, an era that had started in the 1790s when a layer of carbon began to be laid down worldwide by humans burning coal.
Storytelling As Life Cycle: A Conversation with Keith Edmier
Born on the South Side of Chicago in 1967, Keith Edmier grew up in the suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry creating make-up special effects.
Lost In Eden: A Conversation with Jean-Michel Othoniel
On May 12, 2015, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel celebrated the official opening of his grand fountain sculptures at Versailles, the former home of Louis XIV. The three monumental glass sculptures are sited within the newly renovated Water Theatre Grove created by landscape designer Louis Benech.
