Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909, plaster. I believe that Pablo Picasso, in terms of the history of art, is as important for his sculptures as he is for his paintings. His inventiveness, his radical reappraisal of what sculpture was and could become, and his ability (rather like Henry Moore’s) to seize on the discoveries
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Rebecca Welz
New York June Kelly The luminous constructions of Rebecca Welz appear to have been made both by nature and by hand. Composed of folded sheets of Plexiglas, the sculptures translucently glow as light passes through them.
“Body Worlds”
London Atlantis Gallery “Is the cadaver dead?” muses Newsweek’s David Noonan. In today’s high-tech world, observes the critic, sophisticated images on CD-ROMs and pre-dissected parts (prosections), coupled with the emergence of genomics and neuroscience, have reduced medical education’s reliance on the procurement of human remains.
A Difference in Kind: Spontaneous Memorials after 9/11
At a national memorial site this ritual leaving, beyond linking the living to the dead, defines the way individual experience and public event are conflated in memory. Offerings often reveal much about personal relationships to the dead as well as the significance of these deaths in a larger social context.
Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle Fresno Art Museum September 11 – November 25, 2001 Oakland Museum of California June 15 – September 22, 2002
Installation view of woven wire sculpture from the 1950s in “Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle,” on view at the Oakland Museum of CaliforniaMichael Temperio Ruth Asawa has said that her breakthrough woven wire sculptures of the early 1950s were influenced by childhood memories of laboring on a truck farm in California during the Great Depression
Portrait of the Atom as a Force Diagram in Space: Kenneth Snelson’s Digital Excursions
Kenneth Snelson’s large-scale sculptures of steel tubes and wires have gained international recognition in exhibitions and collections worldwide. However, Snelson’s interest in the construction of matter has also produced an entirely different line of work on a submicroscopic level: his on-going art work “Portrait of an Atom.”
