Robert Irwin once stranded an East Coast art critic alongside a southern California roadway for obstinately refusing to consider hot rod building an art form. Irwin, a custom car builder in his youth, considers the Go & Show hot rod the apex of car customization art.
November 2008
Richard Serra’s Paris Promenade
Last spring, Monumenta transformed the historic Grand Palais in Paris for the second time, inviting Richard Serra to engage with the cavernous 145,000-square-foot volume that defines Henri Deglane’s 19th-century glass cathedral. By sponsoring these high-profile, site-specific interventions by contemporary artists (Anselm Kiefer was the first), the French government has restored the viability, public function, and
Michael Todd
Los Angeles Michael Todd presented work in the…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Peripheral Visions: A Conversation with Linda Fleming
In the late afternoon light of the Western Nevada desert, the hard work of sand spiders becomes visible when the sun angle is just low enough to be caught by the glistening dew. This is the world that inspires Linda Fleming, a world apparent only out of the corner of one’s eye.
Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz
For the past decade, Alyson Shotz has created sculptures and installations for public and private spaces in which light, texture, and material evoke sensations of movement and dynamism and create new and unexpected visual perceptions. Widely shown in the United States, she has exhibited at a number of major institutions, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art
