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The North Carolina Museum of Art
During the last twenty years, the mission and ontology of modern art museums have been increasingly shaped by corporate and financial interests. Once seen as a safeguarding academic standard, promoting scholarship and educational research, museums are now regarded as catalysts for profit. The problem has been exacerbated by a precipitous... More »
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The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
This is the apt title of a book by James David Draper and Edouard Papet, inspired by and documenting the 2014 retrospective exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d’Orsay. We have... More »
Sculpture Through the Prism of Gender
The inaugural opening at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, a 113,000 square-foot gallery, located in Los Angeles, is an important, monumental, museum-size exhibition of one hundred abstract sculptures created by thirty-four... More »
Out of the Past
On the day when a statue is finished, its life, in a certain sense, begins. —Marguerite Yourcenar In the title essay from her collection That Mighty Sculptor, Time, Marguerite Yourcenar traces the life of an art work—... More »
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