John Adams: Modern Music Wisdom
[John Adams] dismisses talk of the so-called “death of classical music” as pretty meaningless. “The world is full of people with creative ideas,” says Adams. “We could, to make things simpler, just...
View ArticleKnowing When to Stop
When a painting really lives, has a right to exist on its own strength and weaknesses, I consider it finished. When I have put all I can into it and it really breathes, I stop. There are times when a...
View ArticleRichard Serra at MOMA
Mr. Serra, 67, says that as far as he knows he has missed only one of these installations, last year, thoroughly against his will, while recovering from knee surgery. It genuinely puzzles him when...
View ArticleSigmar Polke and “The Axis of Time”
Image courtesy of Michael Werner Gallery As is always the case with his work, Mr. Polke said, the paintings for the biennale sprang from specific ideas yet evolved in mystical ways as he experimented....
View ArticleRoni Horn in Iceland
Horn’s Library of Water in Stykkisholmur, Iceland Horn has been a “permanent tourist” in Iceland from her home in New York for more than 30 years. Library of Water, her permanent installation in the...
View ArticleRichter Window Nearing Completion
A monumental new Gerhard Richter south transept window [is being worked on], replacing one that had been destroyed during World War II. The new window is scheduled to be unveiled to the public on Aug....
View ArticleRichard Long at the Scottish Gallery
A Line in Scotland Richard Long is one of Britain’s most influential living artists. Based on the artist’s walks from the mid-1960s, his work takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and...
View ArticleCornell: One Step Closer to What Can Never Be Named
He had a thing for blue. Also clay pipes and Victorian postcards, ticket stubs, bits of tulle, starfish and old clock parts. He was drawn to automats and secondhand-book stalls, corresponded with...
View ArticleA Philosopher Who Makes Stuff
Bruce Nauman describes his place in art this way: “I think that it’s not knowing what’s coming or what art is supposed to be or how you’re supposed to go about being an artist that keeps it...
View ArticleArt and Suffering: Shades of Grey
Suffering writ large…”The Two Fridas”, by Frida Kahlo Among the 15 or so personal questions I throw at artists for the weekly G2 interview Portrait of the Artist, there is one that tends to make...
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