Manfred Muller, Palacio de Memoria LCI [Lower Color Intention], 2003. Red primed paper with oil pastel and linseed oil on mat board, 37.5 x 16 in. From Matteo Ricci’s 15th-century tale Palace of Memory to Italo Calvino’s 20th-century Invisible Cities and Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s recent Civil Wars, European writers have continuously explored memory as an artistic
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“Model Home”
Baltimore Artscape Imagine a vintage ’50s—’60s-style model home pared down to its essentials; then travel back to a time when residences were designed according to theme-based suites (say a Renaissance palace); and finally, fill the rooms with a contemporary sampling of installations.
BWAC at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
Matt Johnson, Empire State, 2003. The 21st annual Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) sculpture show took place over the summer at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, which is located directly north of the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
Robert Wilson
North Adams, MA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art The best way to appraise art is to immerse oneself in its sensory input without resorting to labels, explanations, and artists’ statements, any of which tend to distract and dilute.
“The Paper Sculpture Show”
Long Island City, NY SculptureCenter All of us have probably made a few paper airplanes or tried our hand at origami, but this innovative exhibition “The Paper Sculpture Show” lets loose 29 contemporary artists to come up with inventive ways you can turn ordinary sheets of paper into sculpture.
Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir
by Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2003. Introduction by Thomas McEvilley. 223 pp. With illustrations by the author The subtitle and leading epigraph to Tom Marioni’s memoir, Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir is appropriately, “The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.”
“Inside/Outside/On the Wall”
Riverdale, New York Hebrew Home for the Aged Joel Perlman, High Circle, 1997. Steel, 120 x 60 x 48 in. The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale occupies a beautiful site in the northwest corner of the Bronx, where it sits overlooking the Hudson River.
Types of Insurance that Sculptors Regularly Need to Obtain for their Studios, Employees, and Exhibitions
Just when it seemed that things couldn’t get any worse: the worst happened to Charles Ginnever. In the spring of 2003, the sculptor, who divides his time between Vermont and California, was given two months to leave the house and studio he had been renting for 13 years in the West Coast town of Petaluma:
Mary Jo Bole’s Memento Mori
One of the first things you notice when you see Mary Jo Bole’s work is just how much there is to look at. In any project, say My First Dutch Lesson: Rust/Rest (1997–99) or Granny’s Necklace (1999–2000), there may be intricate surfaces and sculptural forms, tiny mosaic tiles and cast bronze plaques, images to decipher,
Pier Walk: Shrinking, Shrinking
Pier Walk, the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition at Chicago’s Navy Pier, shrinks steadily as commerce invades places where sculptures once stood. Originally constructed in 1916, Navy Pier is a long, shed-like structure, surrounded by a spacious pedestrian promenade that extends 3,000 feet out into Lake Michigan.
