The Material of Public Art
The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.
The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Architects, engineers, and students in 130 cities are competing this fall to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. Canstr...
Susan Eley | Posted 10.03.2009 | New York
This fall, pedestrians along Broadway can enjoy the major exhibition of nine monumental sculptures by Carole Eisner, situated in the malls along the avenue from 64th through 166th.
Ashley Van Buren | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
Seeing Ryman's art is a bit like walking up and down the grid streets of Manhattan, surrounded by buildings in various states of completion -- an architect's work, like an artist's, on display for all to see.
Richard Reiss | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green
Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
If you're an art collector, aficionado, or appreciator, these four tips should help you shift your collection (or simply the way you see art) into a more earth-minded endeavor.
Heather Cabot | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
As we watched our preschoolers take turns in the sand with shovels and pails this morning, I realized that for the first time in a while, we weren't venting about our creative frustration.
Hillary Newman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green
There is nothing more exciting than to look at the promise of the day making art.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living
We've come a long way since books were hand copied treasures mostly locked behind the libraries of the monastaries by the clergy before Gutenberg set ...
Suzanne Deal Booth | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style
it's not surprising that LACMA has come so far. Its director, Michael Govan has transformed the institution he once called a "sleeping giant." The evolution started where it should, with the art.
Hillary Newman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
Mary Boone | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style
Art matters because looking at a beautiful painting or sculpture gives us an experience that nothing else can.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living
This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...
Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago
It seems like the end of an era: Chicago's own art-collector and bon vivant Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman died last week at age 94.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Chicago
Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.18.2008 | Living
As a mother and artist, there's no doubt that my greatest works of art, the magical moving 3D beings whose personalities evolve and grow each day, are...
Mark Mennin | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green