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...Sculptor Ruben Ochoa, based in Los Angeles, operates in the great modernist tradition of junk assemblage that goes back to Picasso. Ochoa builds his work out of suitably despised things: broken concrete, rebar, chain-link fencing--the rubbishy stuff of construction sites. But he combines those elements to create ceiling-height formations that have a brutal grandeur. An Ideal Disjuncture, 2008, brings to mind the swells of Baroque form, but with materials so scrappy, they couldn't fall into the suave clichés of Baroque art if they tried...
...artwork that dots it.“I would say that students are not very aware at all,” says James A. McFadden ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, strolling towards Lamont. “I couldn’t tell you the name, sculptor, or meaning of any of them and I don’t think most people I know could either.”However, McFadden does believe that there is one statue that’s almost universally known by students: the Chinese dragon stele between Widener Library and Boylston Hall, which...
...know facts about Nathanial’s life that Nathanial himself has forgotten. “The Soul Thief” traces the incestuous and turbulent bonds that form as the three spend time together over the following months and that eventually drive Nathanial insane. When Jamie, a lesbian sculptor and Nathanial’s lover, is raped, Nathanial is convinced that Coolberg is involved. Caught up in the paranoia, Nathanial retreats back to the rich and stable relationships that he has with his loving stepfather and mute sister. Baxter’s characters are obliquely formed through third-party...
...Fantastical Mechanisms" are all part of the show. American artist Norman Tuck offers practical but surprising demonstrations of scientific principles. In Double Helix, for example, two motor-driven copper spirals twine gently within each other until the moment they touch and reverse the motor. The machines of Russian sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, by contrast, are better read as manifestations of the troubled artist's state of mind. Now living in Glasgow, where his works are shown as a theatrical installation called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight...
...that could fill Midland's pockets but potentially devastate Marfa's culture, lifestyle and economy, based in large part on tourism thanks to Marfa's proximity to Big Bend National Park and its reputation as an artists' haven (artists and galleries have been a fixture in town since celebrated sculptor Donald Judd relocated here from New York...