For nearly 20 years, along certain stretches of highway and other unexpected places, there have been sightings of curiously elegant and quirky creatures known to art world insiders (and a few public officials) as “pop-ups.” These more-or-less public sculptures created by Lee Littlefield (who died in June 2013) testify to his sculptural persona: rangy, appealing,
November 2013
Seeing the Light: A Conversation with Heinz Mack
A pioneer of light, land, and kinetic art, Heinz Mack, who lives and works in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and in Ibiza, Spain, has been pursuing his utopian synthesis of aesthetics and science since the 1950s. After graduating from the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he teamed up with Otto Piene in 1957 to establish a new artistic direction;