Richard Serra

'Cuddle On The Tightrope'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Video, Neo-Concretism, Richard Serra, Ernesto Neto, Nasher Sculpture Center, Craft Art, Brazilian Art, Biomorphic Sculpture, Ernesto Neto Brazil, Crochet, Arts News

Crocheting provides pleasure and distraction to many who wish to pass the time, yet being a pastime means far more than being just a diversion. Brazil...

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An Art Gala To Remember

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Bomb-Magazine, Video, Richard Serra, Bomb Gala 2012, Gala, Silent Auction, Betsy Sussler, New York Gala, Capitale, Patti Smith, Klaus Biesenbach, Slideexpand, Marsha Norman, Arts News

Last night, BOMB Magazine celebrated its 31st anniversary at Capitale in New York by honoring curator Klaus Biesenbach, playwright Marsha Norman, and ...

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Occupational Hazards: The Cultural Dissonance of 2011

David Coggins | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Willem De Kooning, Veronica Falls, Richard Diebenkorn, Sharon Van Etten, Richard Serra, Anonymous 4, South by Southwest, Werner Herzog Austra, Arts News
David Coggins

2011 was a year of friction -- people demanded to be heard and if they weren't heard, they occupied. They physically made themselves part of the conversation, taking the narrative into their own hands and putting voice to visceral disagreement.

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WATCH: How To Assemble A Richard Serra Work

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Budco Enterprises, Installation Art, Video, Process-Art, Richard Serra, Cantor-Arts-Center, Minimalist Sculpture, Sculpture, Fisher Art Foundation, Minimalist Art, Stanford University, Arts News

The sculptor Richard Serra is known the world over for his minimalist works that emphasize material and create an engrossing experience. However, anot...

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Fast Times in the New York Art World

Noah Becker | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Noah Becker, Contemporary Art, Whitehot Magazine, Art, Richard Serra, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News
Noah Becker

Noah Becker on the phone: photo by Steven Lane It's a rainy night in...

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Where Do Important Artists Come From?

David Galenson | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Damien Hirst, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Young British Artists, Lisa Yuskavage, Royal College of Art, Richard Serra, Yale School of Art, Chuck Close, John Currin, Goldsmiths College, Matthew Barney, Arts News
David Galenson

Simply put, important new artists are most likely to emerge in the same cities where important artists have emerged in the recent past. And even more narrowly, in recent decades important new artists have been most likely to emerge from the same academic institutions that have produced important artists in the past.

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Lights, Cameras And Wonder At NYC's Nuit Blanche

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Slidefreestyle, Slidepollajax, Andrea Cuius, Ugly Art Room, Brooklyn Street Art, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Chris Jordan, Ethan Vogt, Chika Lijima, Valeska Soares, Steven P. Harrington, Bring to Light, Brycia Suite, Jeff Desom, Shai Fuller, Daniel Canogar, Nuit Blanche New York 2011, Jacob Segal, Reid Bingham, Organelle Design, Diller Scofidio, Jocelyn Oppenheim, Sean McIntyre, Jaime Rojo, Roland Ellis, Marcos Zotes-Lopez, Elisabeth Smolarz, Richard Serra, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Amanda Long, Chakaia Booker, Nathan Kensinger, Alex Villar, Poemobile, Elliot-Goodman, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Still way off the beaten path, and captivatingly so, New York's 2nd annual Nuit Blanche overcame difficult weather and logistical hurdles to blind a f...

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WATCH: Chuck Close On Corruption In The Art Market

Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Chuck Close Portraits, Kate Moss, Phillip Glass, Roy Lichtenstein, UK Arts, Chuck Close Interview, Chuck Close, Art, Video, Brad Pitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Chuck Close Video, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jasper Johns, Arts News

Chuck Close is well known for his photorealistic portraits, and as an artist with numerous parties vying for control of his work, he is in a unique po...

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PHOTOS: Richard Serra's Lighter Side

Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: The Met, Richard Serra Art, Richard Serra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Ny, Art Nyc, Richard-Serra-Drawing-a-Retrospective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Serra Drawing, New York Art, Arts News

Richard Serra: The Drawings, organized by the Menil Collection in Houston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is much more ephemeral than most of the c...

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Serra On The Art Of Installing His Sculpture

sfgate.com | Linda Cicero / Stanford University News Dept. | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Installation Art, Sequence, Budco, Richard Serra, Sfmoma, Sculpture, Lacma, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, Cantor Arts Center, Snohetta, Arts News

In a few years, when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens the mammoth extension designed for it by the Norwegian architect team Snøhetta, Ric...

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Rose Art Museum Collection Saved

The Huffington Post | Sydney Edelist | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Boston, Willem De Kooning, Controversy, Art News, Art Controversy, Richard Serra, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, Art Collection, Brandeis University, Jasper Johns, Rose Art Museum, Morris Louis, Arts News

The legal battle over Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum's collection is finally over. According to reports published Thursday morning, the univers...

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Picasso, Tonys & Shepard Fairey: Highlights This Week

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Ryan Trecartin, Crime, Broadway, Highlights, Theater, Banksy, New York, Video, Neil Patrick Harris, Art, Paparazzi, Richard Serra, John Coltrane, Pablo Picasso, Book of Mormon, Justin Timberlake, Shepard Fairey, Theft, Arts News

It's been a crazy week here of the Arts Page: the 65th Annual Tony Awards were Sunday with performances by Neil Patrick Harris and "The Book of Mormon...

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Justin Timberlake Talks Art

Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Oliver Kamm, Richard Serra, Street Art, Sculpture, Fan Art, Justin Timberlake, Lacma, Nsync, Music, Los Angeles, Banksy, Arts News

For a feature in the July issue of Vanity Fair, Justin Timberlake was interviewed during a trip to LACMA, and the LA Times has some choice quotes on t...

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WATCH: Anish Kapoor On His Paris Takeover

Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Anish Kapoor, Christian Boltanski, Grand Palais, Champs-Elysees, Video, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra, France, Monumenta, Sculpture, Leviathan, Paris, vernissage.tv, Arts News

It was only a matter of time before Anish Kapoor, sculptor-extraordinaire of all things bulbous, shiny and massive, was invited to fill up the exhibit...

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Choice Nuggets Found in Leo Castelli Archives

Daniel Grant | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Leo Castelli, Archives of American Art, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Calvin Thomkins, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Count Panza, Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, Jasper Johns, Ileana Sonnabend, E.P. Richardson, Arts News
Daniel Grant

The Castelli Gallery was perhaps the most prominent commercial venue for art in the world, starting from the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s.

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Top 10 Art Events of the Last Decade

Robert Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Barneyyue Minjun, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Rose Lee Goldberg, Performa, Francis Bacon, England, New York City, Marina Abramovic, 9/11, Guggenheim, Janet, The Arts Fair, Kimberly Brookes, Richard Serra, Jim Cohan, Cardiff, George Bures Miller, China, Arts News
Robert Ayers

Looking back at the last decade crystallizes my belief that the best art does something more than interconnect with the events around it. It actually contributes to events that have yet to happen.

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Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show

Monica Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Andrea Zittel, Artforum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jeff Koons, Adrian Piper, Scott Burton, Richard Serra, Liam Gillick Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Relational Aesthetics, Museums, Nicholas Bourriaud, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Museums, Contemporary Art Museums, Chicago News
Monica Westin

The modern or contemporary museum's self-professed job now often includes reconfiguring social relationships, emphasizing performance and participation of the audience.

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Easy Reader: Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty Is An Object of Flawed Beauty

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl, Cy Twombly, Cruel Shoes, Madison Avenue, Sotheby's, An Object of Beauty, Steve Martin, Andy Warhol, Chelsea, Richard Serra, Edward Hopper, Hotel Window, Brooke Alderson Schjeldahl, William Acquavella, Larry Gagosian, Pure Drivel, Grand Central Publishing, Shopgirl, Books News
David Finkle

Steve Martin may be a wild and crazy guy elsewhere but when it comes to his new novel, An Object of Beauty, set squarely in Manhattan's art-and-commerce world, he's serious.

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Along for the Ride: Upstate New York

Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Storm King, Robert Smithson, Jean-Georges, Mark Di Suvero, Calder, John Chamberlain, Beacon, The Arbor, High Falls, The Mark, Bed and Breakfast, Andy Warhol, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Trips From NYC, Richard Serra, Woodstock, Robert Irwin, Upstate New York, Slidepollajax, Dia, Weekend Travel, Donald Judd, Travel News
Andrea R. Vaucher

This year, I headed upstate New York to see the Dia:Beacon and Storm King. I hung out with old friends, ate amazing food and saw the big art shows that traditionally open during this season.

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From Art to Mouth: SFMOMA's Collection Inspires Unique Dessert Menu

Cherie Louise Turner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Piet Mondrian, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Serra, Sfmoma, Ellsworth Kelly, San Francisco Museum, Blue Bottle Cooffee, San Francisco Art, Caitlin Williams Freeman, Art Cakes, Photography, UC Santa Cruz, Baking, Cake, Arts News
Cherie Louise Turner

When a new show comes up, we make a new dessert based on what will be showing. We really keep the desserts limited to reflecting what's actually on display in the museum.

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Artists Are Not Above the Law

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Art World Lawsuits, Dale Chihuly, Art Rogers, Arts News
Daniel Grant

Much has been made of the state of public art as a result of the Richard Serra "Tilted Arc" controversy but, perhaps the most important lesson is that "when you sign a contract, you're bound by it."

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Kathryn Bigelow's Life in Art

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Art & Language, Fritz Haeg, Abstraction, Strange Days, Whitney Museum of American Art, Film, Hollywood, Point Break, Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, Richard Serra, Zoran Popvic, Vito Acconci, Blue Steel, Oscars, San Francisco Art Institute, Moca, Dan Graham, Artforum, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

It's undeniably a great thing that a woman won for the first time, but probably more surprising that Bigelow made the transition from collaborating on art world films to directing in Hollywood.

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Richard Serra and Jessye Norman Join Forces to Help the Homeless at Art Auction

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Churck Close, Elizabeth Peyton, Jenny Holzer, Matthew Barney, Richard Serra, Jessye Norman, Ed Ruscha, Partnership for the Homeless, Jasper Johns, Tobias Meyer, Gagosian Gallery, New York News
Jane Levere

To be held at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea on January 29, the event will feature cocktails and a silent and live auction.

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Serra on 21st Street

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Chelsea, Richard Serra, Gagosian, Contemporary Art, Sculpture, New York News
Stephanie Adamowicz

And so it came to be that I witnessed a Richard Serra sculpture dismantled into pieces and lining a block and a half of New York City.

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