London Pangolin London William Tucker’s monumental bronze sculptures are incredibly difficult to reproduce in photographs. Despite careful lighting and the judicious use of close-ups, most catalogues do not succeed in being more than an aide-mémoire.
New York “Rite of Passage: The Early Years of Vienna Actionism, 1960–1966,” curated by Hubert Klocker, was the first show to present the early years of the Vienna Actionists to a New York audience. Klocker and his academic associate, Gloria Sutton, carefully outlined the importance of these artists—including Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Günter Brus, and
New York Michael Werner Gallery Idiosyncrasy in contemporary sculpture has a way of communicating pleasure and humor, and Enrico David’s recent show did exactly that. His works play with the figure but also maintain a genuine sculptural intelligence that supports his offbeat themes.
New York Robert Miller Gallery Ted Victoria continues to baffle and enlighten viewers with works that explore relationships between actual objects and their photographic representations. Iconic sea monkeys, aswim in projection boxes, along with banal objects sequestered within enigmatic camera obscura constructions, still prevail.
Santa Fe, New Mexico Center for Contemporary Art Before we learned to write, we learned to speak. Before it was a language recognized by our tribe, it was sound. Our cries of pleasure and pain were connected to what we experienced in our bodies, and as we quickly learned, those sounds could elicit attention and
North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA In the 18th century, the world’s most common bird may have been Ectopistes migratorius, the passenger pigeon. Estimated at three to five billion in number, these birds made up a quarter of the total avian population in North America when the first European settlers arrived.
Washington, DC Hamiltonian Gallery Growing up as the fifth of six children on a working farm in upstate New York is not often the springboard to an artistic vocation. In Dane Winkler’s case, his rural childhood is a constant wellspring of inspiration.
Paris Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris David Altmejd’s first major exhibition in France was stunning in scope. His strange and exotic forms offer myriad opportunities for viewer interaction, though the mirrors that were so prominent in his installation at the Canadian Pavilion (2007 Venice Biennale) seemed not as evident here.
In 2000, Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Laureate atmospheric chemist, declared that we were no longer living in the era of the Holocene, the Recent Era, but rather in the Anthropocene, an era that had started in the 1790s when a layer of carbon began to be laid down worldwide by humans burning coal.
Born on the South Side of Chicago in 1967, Keith Edmier grew up in the suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry creating make-up special effects.
