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THE BUSINESS OF ART: The Earthwork as a Commodity – By Christopher Chambers
Alan Sonfist is perhaps the ultimate purist of the Earthworks movement. THE BUSINESS OF ART: The Earthwork as a Commodity By Christopher Chambers Alan Sonfist, Burning Forest, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Art Institute. 10 ft. x 20 ft. 2002. Ghosts of North Americaââ¬â¢s forest fires. Alan Sonfist is perhaps the ultimate purist of the […]
Moved: Moving or Immobile? – By Christina Vassallo
We’ve all been guilty at one time or another of letting our minds wander and making rapid associations when viewing art, often at the expense of experiencing the art. Admit it: sometimes we don’t even see the art at all. Moved: Moving or Immobile? By Christina Vassallo Mowry Baden, Vancouver Room, 1973. […]
“Underneath the Roof We Built from the Trees We Run Between” – By Marco Antonini
An installation by Kelie Bowman and Sto in Williamsburg’s Cinders Gallery, "Underneath the Roof We Built from the Trees We Run Between" is one of the best, if little, things I’ve seen recently. The cozy exhibition space of Cinders is resized by a "room inside the room" built specifically for this exhibit. Sto’s side of […]
Jeff Koons and David Byrne in Conversation – Jamie Dalglish
David Byrne: When I sit I always have to try to remember to be near the microphone because it’s not like The Mike Douglass show or something like that where they have the microphone on your neck. Although, lately, I’ve been learning sort of to yell at it from a distance. Jeff Koons and David […]
Public Art Goes Natural – Introduction, Molly Kleiman
"And Immediately / Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: / The sun-comprehending glass, / And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows / Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless." — Larkin, "High Windows" Public Art Goes Natural Introduction, Molly Kleiman "And Immediately / Rather than words comes the thought of […]
To Make a Sewage Treatment Plant Pretty – Sarah Northmore
Patricia Johanson doesn’t merely decorate with site specific art–she cultivates and grows the site itself. For twenty years now, her parks, ponds, marshes and labyrinth-like paths have metamorphosed ecological disasters into halcyon refuges. What catalyzes these projects? Often, municipal construction projects like a pump station in San Francisco Bay or, in the case of her […]
Greenery Gets Glamorous: The High Line and The Gates dress up New York City – Jennifer Luong [ mor
"Imagine a mile-and-a-half of surreal gardens in the sky, a linear stroll where time slows down and the spectacle of nature in the city is heightened to new levels of surprise and pleasure. And the High Line raises a host of extraordinary opportunities for new synthesis of ecology, art, urbanism, and urban culture." —Field Operations […]
Man vs. Nature: Nurturing the Divide – Emily Lodish
"I have a no-shoes apartment," Anne-Katrin Spiess tells me as I walk into her gorgeous West Village home. I tuck away my boots. How tightly controlled she keeps her living space–the carefully constructed open spaces and precisely placed home furnishings serve a fixed, holistic decorating scheme. Man vs. Nature: Nurturing the Divide Emily Lodish Anne-Katrin […]
“30,000 Bananas” – Doug Fishbone
On October 5, 2004, I installed an enormous mountain of ripe bananas – roughly 30,000 of them – on the North Terrace of London‚s Trafalgar Square. After sitting on the Terrace all day, like a strange organic sculpture, the bananas were given away to the audience totally free of charge. "30,000 Bananas" Doug Fishbone Eat […]
Enchanted Forests of the 21st Century – Molly Kleiman
With their dark corners, swampy valleys and dense thickets, forests harbor unknown, intricate, even invisible ecosystems. Not to mention innumerable Pucks, hobbits, and other sprites, rabbit holes, hidden caves and other portholes. These life- and imagination-sustaining spaces are quickly diminishing to make way for cash crops, office paper. Enchanted Forests of the 21st Century Molly […]
