Thinking Big
Gary Tinterow returns to Texas to run the Museum of Fine Arts—and to grow it even larger Read More
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Tag Archives: Hilarie M. Sheets
Use Your Illusion
Contemporary sculptors are tricking the eye and the mind with uncannily realistic objects Read More
Head in the Clouds
With the spirit of an artist, inventor, scientist, and engineer, Tomás Saraceno creates enormous bubbles, giant ethereal webs, and basketball court−size balloons that aspire to be lighter than air Read More
Backdrops, Blobs, Pods, and Props
The Walker Art Center celebrates its acquisition of a trove of objects documenting artists’ collaborations with Merce Cunningham in a series of groundbreaking shows Read More
Dynamic Duos
A growing number of artists make art as collaborators—
brainstorming, inspiring, arguing, and asking each other silly questions. Read More
Seeing Africa Around the World
In a groundbreaking show traversing continents and mediums, Lowery Sims defines an international African esthetic. Read More
The Morgan Behind the Morgan
A restoration of J. P. Morgan's library illuminates lesser-known aspects of the collector and his treasures . Read More
A New Look at an Edgy Realist
The visionary landscapes of Charles Burchfield come to the Hammer Museum in a major show curated by contemporary sculptor Robert Gober. Read More
Where Pharaohs Meet Mad Max
Raw brutalism and gritty humor underlie Huma Bhabha's antiheroic monuments. Read More
Uncovering Matisse
The first major survey of Matisse's output during World War I uses cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned connoisseurship to reveal his radical system of scraping, scratching, and repainting. Read More
Man of a Thousand Faces
Filming portraits for his acclaimed glass-brick foundation in Chicago, weaving the alphabet into a giant steel figure in Des Moines, and staging a tower of cymbals for Dubai's newest skyscraper, Jaume Plensa brings a sense of spectacle and intimacy into monumental public sculpture. Read More
Turning the Subject into the Artist
Oliver Herring is guided by social interaction—in communally made photosculptures, in giddy performances where volunteers take on bizarre tasks, and in videos featuring strangers who come by his Brooklyn studio. Read More
