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Croatia’s Monumental Provocateur
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Dec. 25, 2011
The first American survey of Sanja Ivekovic, at the Museum of Modern Art, assembles nearly 40 years' worth of video, photocollages and one sizable obelisk.
Multimedia: Personal Cuts
Cultural Context MachineEngine29.org (USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship), November 2011
A digital timeline created as part of the pop-up newsroom Engine29.org. It pinpoints some of the seminal cultural events that took place in Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s. Created with Kim Levin, Randall Roberts and Carolina Miranda during the USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship.
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Surviving the Retrospective
Art Basel Miami Beach magazine, December 2011
As this year’s featured Conversations series artist,
Gabriel Orozco explores what it means to add to an
already celebrated body of work.
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Claes Oldenburg - The Virtuoso of Public Sculpture
The Art Economist, November 2011 • cover story
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and the making of public monuments for over three decades.
"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical; that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." Thus wrote Claes Oldenburg in a poetical manifesto in 1961, when he had just embarked on experimentalist projects like The Street and The Store that would later prove so fundamental to the evolution of Pop art. And here he was half a century later, talking excitedly on the phone about the installation of his latest large-scale monument, "Paint Torch," commissioned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia for its campus.
Abstract Expressionist Made Whole
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, November 20, 2011
The new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver sheds light on an Abstract Expressionist pioneer.
Multimedia: Inside the new Clyfford Still Museum
"When Poetry Devours the Walls"
An essay about Blek le Rat, aka Xavier Prou, the street stencil art pioneer who taught Banksy everything he knows. It appears in "Blek le Rat: the Thirty Year Anniversary Retrospective" (San Francisco: Art Publishing, Ltd., 2011)
Cutting Through Cute to the Real Japan
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, October 18, 2011
Tabaimo, whose third New York solo show, “danDAN,” runs through Oct. 28 at James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea, seems unblemished by success.
Slide Show: Connections and Anxieties
Video: Tabaimo – "danDAN"
The Brilliance of Tony Cragg
The Art Economist, September 2011
A conversation with this acclaimed sculptor, who also is showing at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Louvre and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
"Robert Schwartz"
catalog essay for "Robert Schwartz" (one of the subjects of my first art review in 1991)
September 8 - October 9, Babcock Galleries, New York
There Can Be Beauty in Barriers
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, August 14, 2011
For "Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries," the photographer Mariana Cook traveled the world to capture the beauty of these structures.
Interactive Feature: For the Love of Walls
Slide Show: Portraits and Stone
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A Peephole Perspective on Tiny Worlds
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, June 12, 2011
"Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities," an exhibition focusing on dioramas of various sorts, is at Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.
Interactive Feature: 'Optical Delusions'
Slide Show: 'Otherworldly'
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Chinese Life as Child's Play
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, June 5, 2011
Cao Fei, whose new show is on view at Lombard-Freid Projects in Chelsea, shines a light on contemporary Chinese life by looking at its subcultures.
Slide Show: Play On
Video: Cao Fei's "Shadow Life"
Monuments: The Poetry of Dreams
The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, May 8, 2011
Jaume Plensa has a new 44-foot-high sculpture, "Echo," that was raised in Madison Square Park last week.
Slide Show: Families of Figures
Video: Installing Jaume Plensa's 'Echo'
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