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8 Deadly Works of Art
After Ai Weiwei’s Tate exhibition was effectively quarantined for its impact on visitors’ health and well-being, we thought we’d investigate the art world for a few other pieces and exhibitions that...
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Public Art Versus Public Good
Richard Serra, “Tilted Arc” (1981) (image from pbs.org)Over the past week, I’ve been writing about art’s environmental impact and how that factors in to perceived artistic quality. What the debate...
View ArticleRichard Serra Cleans Off Desk, Makes Art
Richard Serra may be best known for his curving steel wall sculptures, iconic minimalist interventions in space, but his earlier works erred even more on the side of conceptually abstract. The artist’s...
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Required Reading
GO-Globe.com's infographic that shows what happens online in 60 seconds. I wonder how much art is made or posted in that same period? (via Laughing Squid)This week’s Required Reading has Serra at the...
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Required Reading
Street artist Curly has a thought about American elections (via flickr.com/staycurly)This week’s edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren’t all good things worth the wait?...
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5 Artists Who Anticipated Festivus
Happy Festivus everyone!Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as a way to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. It was created by...
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The Problem with Big Art
Carsten Holler's slides installed in the Tate's Turbine Hall (image via flickr.com/Leeks) (click to enlarge)Ossian Ward has a feature in Art in America this month about the dismaying trend of bigness...
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The Problems of North American Airport Art
Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang” at the Denver International Airport. Image from Denverpost.com.BERKELEY, California — These days, we experience the world on a much more international level. Whether online or...
View ArticleRichard Serra Discusses Artistic Tools and Strategies
Richard Serra explains the role process has played in his artistic evolution. For the world-renowned artist it is, he explains, an integral part of his work.
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The Vatican Will Mount a Pavilion Exhibition at the 2013 Venice Biennale
The Sale d’Armi Arsenale area of the Venice Biennale (Image via theartnewspaper.com)[This post has been corrected, see below for details]Just as Pope Francis begins his tenure at the head of the...
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In Search of Richard Serra’s Embattled “Shift”
Richard Serra, “Shift” (1972) in King City, Ontario (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)TORONTO — Forget “Spiral Jetty” and “Double Negative.” The most inaccessible work of Land Art is sitting...
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Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City Art World Stronghold, To Close
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than 20 years, John O’Brien’s Dolphin Gallery has been a cultural and community epicenter for Kansas City artists. Located in a huge white wall space in the West Bottoms, a...
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Early Richard Serra Land Work Finally Gets Cultural Protection
Richard Serra’s “Shift” (1972) viewed from the western vantage point (photo by Sarah Zabrodski for Hyperallergic)Richard Serra’s “Shift,” an early land work made by the artist in 1972, has finally...
View ArticleA Shadowy Richard Serra Video Break
Richard Serra’s “Hand Catching Lead” (1968, 16 mm black-and-white film, no sound) is a strangely appealing video that functions as well in the digital era as it probably did in its own time. It is a...
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Mr. Big Stuff: Richard Serra Piles It On
Richard Serra, “Inside Out” (exterior view) (2013), weatherproof steel, 2 inches thick, overall dimensions: 13’ 2” x 80’ 9” x 40’ 2” (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)Once in a blue moon...
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The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Matt Freedman, “Hats and Broom on Bed with Drinking Glass Reflecting Full Moon” (2013), epoxy plastic, found objects, 36 x 72 x 18 in (image courtesy Studio 10)Memories fade. That’s the one good...
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Monuments, Man: Charlie Rose Gets Weird with Richard Serra
Richard Serra, “7 Plates, 6 Angles” (detail) (2013), 7 plates, weatherproof steel, each plate: 8′ x 40′ x 8″; overall dimensions: 8′ x 44′ x 81′ (photograph by Thomas Micchelli for Hyperallergic)For...
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It’s a Man’s World: Inside a Postwar Art Time Capsule
Clyfford Still, “PH-131″ (1951), oil on canvas, 297.2 x 266.7 cm / 117 x 105 inches (© City and County of Denver, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum. ARS, NY and DACS, London 2014. Courtesy Onnasch...
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A Google Earth Perspective on Land Art
Michael Heizer’s “Double Negative,” as seen in Google Earth (all screenshots by the author)Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer’s land work “Double Negative” (1969)...
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The Brute Classicism of Joel Perlman
Partial gallery view, Joel Perlman at Loretta Howard Gallery (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)It’s been over twenty years since we’ve seen Joel Perlman’s large-scale sculptures on...
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Thoughts on Richard Serra in Qatar
(all photographs by Molly Waterman for Hyperallergic)DOHA, Qatar — This spring, Richard Serra has made his mark on the Arab Gulf in a characteristically big way. Several important pieces are currently...
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Some Thoughts About Richard Serra and Martin Puryear (Part 1: Serra)
Richard Serra, “Inside Out” (exterior view) (2013), weatherproof steel, 2 inches thick, overall dimensions: 13’ 2” x 80’ 9” x 40’ 2” (all photographs by Thomas Micchelli for Hyperallergic, unless...
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Some Thoughts About Richard Serra and Martin Puryear (Part 2: Puryear)
Martin Puryear, “The Load” (2012) (©Martin Puryear, Courtesy McKee Gallery) Which brings me to the work of Martin Puryear. Like Serra, Puryear went to Yale’s famed M.F.A. program (1969–71), but he...
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9 Minimalist Boxes for Boxing Day
Sculptures by Richard Serra (photo by Pedro Reis/Flickr) Happy Boxing Day! For those who don’t know, Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated by aesthetes the world over*. In order to purify ourselves after...
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New York City Bill Could Give Citizens Greater Say in Public Art Process
Rendering of Ohad Meromi’s “Sunbather” (screenshot of Ohad Meromi’s proposal) New legislation to be submitted to the New York City Council on Tuesday could bring an end to a decades-long debate...
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At the New Whitney Museum, America Is Actually Very Easy to See
Jasper Johns, “Three Flags” (1958) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which opens to the public...
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Lessons from 30 Years of NYC’s Percent for Art Program
Jorge Luis Rodriguez and NYC Mayor Ed Koch at the dedication ceremony of “Growth” in 1985 (photo courtesy the artist) 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s “Growth” and the public...
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Seven New York City Streets That Should Be Renamed After Artworks
Spike Lee with a mockup of the “Do the Right Thing Way” street sign (photo by @sheltonjlee/Twitter) Today New York’s City Council voted on a proposal to co-name the block of Stuyvesant Avenue between...
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Lessons in Gigantism: Richard Serra Makes It Work
Richard Serra, “NJ-1” (2015), weatherproof steel, six plates, overall: 13’ 9” x 51’ 6”x 24’ 6” (4.2 x 15.7 x 7.5 m), plates: 2” (5 cm thick) (© Richard Serra, photo by Christiano Mascaro) There’s never...
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On One Block in Chelsea, Three Monumental Installations Empower and Overpower
Meg Webster, “Solar Grow Room” (2016), four raised planters with vegetation, off-grid solar powered electrical system, grow lights, mylar covered walls (©Meg Webster, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New...
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Contemplating Perfection and Imperfection at Dia:Beacon
Sol LeWitt, “Wall Drawing #1085: Drawing Series—Composite, Part I-IV, #1-24, A+B” (1968), one wall of four, installation view, graphite on wall, Dia Art Foundation; drawn by Scott Ellison, John Hogan,...
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Art, Work, and the Workaday
Amanda Browder, “Magic Chromacity” (2014), site-specific fabric installation, 25 x 20 x 50 feet (varies on installation) (all images via nortemaar.org) The lobby gallery at the Skidmore, Owings &...
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The Pursuit of Art, 2016
Judith Bernstein, “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015), acrylic on canvas, 84 x 84 inches (courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York) The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange”...
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You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors
Matt Connors, “I Saw My Head Laughing, Rolling On The Ground” (2017), oil, acrylic and colored pencil on canvas, 21 7/8 × 18 3/4 inches (all images courtesy CANADA Gallery) During an online search for...
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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
“David Zwirner: 25 Years” at David Zwirner, New York, installation view, including Ruth Asawa hanging sculpture and Anni Albers textiles (all images courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London/Hong Kong)...
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Discussing the Sculptures of Richard Serra with Hal Foster
Richard Serra’s “Shift” (1970) in King City, Ontario (image courtesy Jason Paris’s Flickr page) There are many illuminating moment’s in Hal Foster’s Conversations about Sculpture (Yale University...
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A Richard Serra Thought Experiment
Richard Serra, “Nine” (2019), forged steel, nine rounds: 7’ (213.4 cm) high, 6’ 4 3/4” (194.9 cm) diameter; 6’ 6” (198.1 cm) high, 6’ 7 3/4” (202.6 cm) diameter; 6’ (182.9 cm) high, 6’ 11” (210.8 cm)...
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
Michael Robbins, “Falling Chair” (c. 1975), acrylic on textured paper, 19 ¾ x 16 inches (right), with a painting by Lorenza Sannai on the left (image courtesy of Lucio Pozzi) AUTHOR’S NOTE: An...
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