San Francisco The fifth installment of Bay Area Now, a…see the full review in May’s magazine.
May 2009
Rebecca Belmore
Vancouver White the flood of press generated by…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Can Sculpture Save New Orleans? Three Audacious Plans Make an Attempt at Recovery
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, it was hard to imagine that the Crescent City art world would ever re-emerge as remembered. But the New Orleans art community has proved to be unexpectedly tenacious. Less than two months after Katrina, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art resurrected its series of Thursday night roots music concerts,
Ice in the Whirlwind: Chris Drury’s Desert Journey from Antarctica to Nevada
In early 2006, the British Antarctic Survey publicized its Artists and Writers residency. Chris Drury, who had been looking for a way to visit one of the Earth’s most remote and extreme places, applied and was selected as one of two artists sent south that year.
Natalia Kempowsky
Cordoba, Argentina The importance of the installation Size matters? lies…see the full review in May’s magazine.
“Hovering Above”
Philadelphia According to “Hovering Above” curator Sue Spaid…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Justin Randolph Thompson: Shrines and Found History
Justin Randolph Thompson’s large-scale sculptures and installations are rooted in cultural history. Using an idiosyncratic vocabulary, his work unfolds complex stories by means of carefully crafted organic and geometric metaphors. Juxtapositions of old materials and new techniques create a synthesis of multi-faceted meanings inspired by pain and destruction in times past, cultural rituals, and sacred
Bruce Hasson
San Francisco Berkeley-based Bruce Hasson has spent extended…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Berlinde De Bruyckere
New York In our cynical age, addicted to the new…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Fritz Haeg’s Alternative Possibilities
Fritz Haeg doesn’t like to make objects. He is a mover and shaker who parachutes into a locale and shows people what’s possible: “Working with local people, I’m a catalyst for something to happen.” He admits that his role isn’t clear.
