Katarzyna Kozyra, The Rite of Spring, 1999/2004. Six-channel video installation; color, sound. The 54th Carnegie International opened with a gala, red carpet celebration at the Carnegie Museum of Art with Peter Fonda, John Waters, and Baron Phillippe and Baroness Marion Lambert in attendance.
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Zachary Coffin: Forming a Limited Liability Corporation for the Support of New Work
For all the talk about how the art world is really an industry and how artists should think of themselves as being in business, actual examples of corporate behavior in the fine arts often comes as a surprise.
Wellington Reiter’s Visitor Station for the DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, Mass. Frank Gehry started it: an explosion of architectural forms, a divorce between form and function that freed the designer to experiment with sculptural qualities. The new visitor station at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, designed by Wellington Reiter, is an understated version of Gehry’s modus operandi, but we have to count it in
Hepworth, Hirst and Hatoum in Tehran
How is it possible to bring an exhibition of 20th-Century art whose fundamental objective predominantly has been to challenge if not undermine authority to a country with one of the most restrictive and inhibitive societal systems in the world?
Sylvia Wald
New York Tenri Cultural Institute Sylvia Wald mines moments, chronicling encounters with objects, shapes, colors, and coincidences in a limitless, life long dialog. In discussing how Wald constantly changes, adds to, or reorients her finished work, curator Thalia Vrachopoulos writes: “By so extending her works Wald, in a way, is stating that life and art
Ena Marrero
MIAMI, FLORIDA Damien B. Art Center Fire has been part of religious thinking since the dawn of mankind. Its esoteric powers and destructive force have both frightened and comforted, depending on the time and place.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2004
Flowers in the air weren’t a big surprise given the fact that international art had come to the Sunshine State for the second time. It seemed like all the “powers” had joined hands to make it an even bigger success than the first Miami show of 2002.
2004 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition
Bellevue, Washington Set in Downtown Park in Bellevue, Washington, the 2004 Sculpture Exhibition had something for everyone. The small park is a semi-formal setting, with a large pond and artificial waterfall at its center, informal trees around the perimeter, and large areas of unarticulated green lawns, all ideal settings for outdoor sculpture.
Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors and Reflective Materials in Contemporary Sculpture
Contemporary sculptors are using mirrors and reflective materials in exciting new ways to expand space and engage viewers. The mirror theme also seems to be popular with curators, and reflective surfaces are popping up in many group shows, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
