On each day of the 57th Carnegie International's run, two calligraphers sit at easels in the center of a first-floor gallery. A projector beams words onto pieces of heavy-stock paper to be traced in…
Conveying the enormity of climate change through discrete objects is the central challenge of contemporary environmental art, if not the single greatest philosophical problem of our era.
Tavares Strachan’s best-known piece may be the 4½-ton block of ice he cut from a frozen river in Alaska and displayed in a refrigerated case at a grade school in his native Bahamas. It was a simple…