New York Santiago Calatrava has said that even…see the full review in May’s magazine.
May 2006
Thomas Hirschhorn
Boston Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Mike Peter Smith
Chicago “The secret source of humor itself”…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Fabrice Gygi
Newport Beach, California Working in artistic territories largely abandoned by artists…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Jene Highstein: Rooms, Columns, Impossible Buildings
Making sculpture can be a simple and pragmatic matter, an attractive way of delivering a piece of defined space to a viewer using all the ingredients of the classic spatial package—media of a certain color, texture, and dimension.
Jun Kaneko: Scale and Topography
Imagine looking northwest, through the polarized glass expanse of the entryway of the Phillip Johnson-designed Art Museum of South Texas into the gray light of a winter morning in early 1985. There, at the end of a 10,000-square-foot sidewalk separating the entrance stairs of the museum from the park road, three huge, weighty objects, adorned
Richard Stout: Inflections of Modernity
For a long time, I could not detect the swallow that would herald a sculptural spring in Houston. The best artists always emigrated; some gave excuses—no propitious climate, no inspiring culture, no public understanding. In the last few years, however, this city, and its environs, has taken me by surprise.
Collisions: A Conversation with Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine’s work addresses complex issues involving human interactions with nature and with machines. As an artist, Paine has an incredible grasp of a concept that he describes as the language of systems, which he applies to computer programs, physics, science, chemistry, and botany and then translates into art.
Time, Space, and Memory: A Conversation with Francisco Gazitúa
Born in Santiago in 1944, Francisco Gazitúa is considered one of Chile’s most accomplished sculptors. With a succession of commissions and individual exhibitions, he has been a major voice in establishing a particularly Chilean branch of contemporary sculpture.