March 2008

Kim Simonsson: Alien Innocence

Finnish artist Kim Simonsson speaks of finding his calling when he discovered ceramic. He describes its extreme variability and diversity of forms as a sort of paradise that allows him to exploit his artistic potential. The first work he created in this material was in the style of a common ceramic living room ornament—a dog.

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Louise Nevelson

New York The Jewish Museum The 67 Louise Nevelson works at the Jewish Museum included a remarkable and little known group of early works, elements of her ground-breaking environments from the 1950s, and important late sculptures, drawings, and prints centered around Mrs.

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Feeding the Spirit of Adventure: A Conversation with Nicholas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley

No research on installation art is complete without a conversation with Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. As founding directors of London’s Museum of Installation (MoI, 1990–2005), an influential nonprofit exhibition space, and authors of the equally influential books, Installation Art (1994) and Installation Art in the New Millennium (2003), their impact is well known.

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