Vistors were walking on water experiencing Christo’s “Floating Piers” this summer.
It is rather striking that part of Christo’s latest project, Floating Piers, a three-kilometer long, saffron walkway zigzagging across the cool waters of Lake Iseo, Italy, also wrapped around a private island owned by Beretta, one of the oldest active gun manufacturers, founded in the 16th century. Like that hippie image of a flower sticking out of the barrel of a gun, Christo unwittingly juxtaposed a spectacle of beauty with a source of mechanized violence that plagues contemporary life. But even with Beretta as a weird backdrop, to stroll along The Floating Piers, this past June, was to find respite from a world of news and work and ordinary life, and indulge in pure sensation. Christo has been perfecting this effect on viewers for almost 50 years of a career devoted to grand public enchantments.
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The Schorrs
A recent show of drawings at the SBMA highlights longtime collectors Lenore and Herbert Schorr, who have gathered work by emerging artists on two coasts.
Reno/ Las Vegas
A new survey shows the range of contemporary art in the Silver State.
Lake ISEO, Italy
Vistors were walking on water experiencing Christo’s “Floating Piers” this summer.
Claire Falkenstein
From Venezia to Venice, California, Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997) proved herself to be a versatile and pioneering artist, in three and more dimensions.
Made in La 2016: a, the, Though, Only
This year’s edition of the Hammer biennial luxuriates in the de-materialized, the ephemeral, and the transitory.
Carmen Herrera
Engaging geometric painting both as image and as physical entity, to memorable effect, the 101-year old Cuban-born artist is having a career moment.
Catherine Morris
The Sackler Center for Feminist Art’s “A Year of Yes,” 10-year anniversary celebration becomes an intervention.
Spotlight: Portland
The arrival of the 51st NCECA Conference this March puts a spotlight on Northwest clay.
Seeing Seca
The five 2017 awardees recognized by SFMOMA’s group demonstrate the wide range of Bay Area contemporary art practices.
On View
A quick roundup of noteworthy museum shows on view this fall.
