June 2014

2013 Frieze Art Fair

London Regent’s Park The 2013 Frieze Art Fair featured three components, Frieze Lon­don, Frieze Masters, and an outdoor sculpture exhibition—all in Regent’s Park. Originally a royal hunting ground, the park includes an artificial lake, tennis courts, cricket ground, children’s playgrounds, and the London Zoo.

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Geoffrey Farmer

London The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer consists of 365 puppets (one for every day of the year) constructed of collaged elements from second-hand books and magazines combined with intricate supports and fabric bodies.

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Zilvinas Kempina

Basel Museum Tinguely For an artist’s work to stand out among the sculptures in the Museum Tinguely, a space hyper-charged with multi-sensory stimuli, is almost impossible. Tinguely’s enormous found-metal, kinetic constructions, which boom and bang when activated, are overwhelming in terms of scale, presence, and sound, seemingly subjugating the entire museum.

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Patti Warashina

Bellevue, Washington Bellevue Arts Museum Organized by the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, Califor­nia, “Wit and Wisdom: Patti Warashina” later traveled to the Bellevue Arts Museum, where BAM curator Stefano Catalani expanded its offerings with loans from local collections.

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Ursula Morley Price

New York McKenzie Fine Art Born in Britain, ceramic sculptor Ursula Morley Price now lives in southwestern France. She is known for her fluted vases, bowls, and jars, which begin in craft and end in a place where craft cannot be denied as fine art.

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SculptureNow 2013

Lenox, Massachusetts  The Mount For 16 seasons, sculptor Ann Jon has organized outdoor exhibitions in Western Massachusetts, attracting increasingly able artists as time has gone on. The venues for Sculpture­Now have also changed, as the show migrated from the Berkshire Botanical Gardens to the streets of Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and Lenox.

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Light, Sky and Fire: A Conversation with Otto Piene

A pioneer of light and kinetic art, Otto Piene, who lives and works in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts, has been pursuing a utopian synthesis of aesthetics and science since the 1950s. After studying painting and art education at the Academy of Art in Munich and the Kunst­akademie Düsseldorf, as well as philosophy at the University

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