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...Bigger Is ... Bigger Abstract expressionist artist Al Held [MILESTONES, Aug. 8] was known for his gigantic geometric paintings. In a July 14, 1967 review, TIME described an exhibit of huge works and this gigantic-art trend...
What is the best way to organize art? For the 400 years that public art museums have been around, they have mostly arranged their collections academically?by artist, chronology, genre or medium. Lately, however, some museums?especially the ones dedicated to modern art?have been challenging this classical approach. Yet none has done so with the explosive force of "Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art," on view at Paris' Pompidou Center until February...
...forgotten. Now, in a feat befitting the noble nuttiness of its originator, a fellow Antipodean has recreated it as a piece of "readymade" sculpture. New Zealand-born, German-based Michael Stevenson, 40, has built a career from the quirks of art history, teasing them out as art-museum "exhibits." Artist or anthropologist? For the 2003 Venice Biennale, he reassembled New Zealand's failed four-wheel-drive vehicle, the Trekka, as a humorous gesture of national self-deprecation. The Queensland Art Gallery's Suhanya Raffel calls Stevenson "an archivist of culture." And to his idiosyncratic eye, Fairweather's raft...
...Stevenson constructed a full-scale replica from new castings of original torpedo-shaped fuel tanks, and a World War II parachute purchased on eBay. Tied together with hemp rope and bamboo, The Gift, as the sculpture is called, forms the oddly beautiful center of an exhibition around which the artist has placed other "relics" from the voyage, including maps meticulously hand-painted by Stevenson. Starting off in Sydney last May, "Argonauts of the Timor Sea" traveled to the U.K. in November, where the artist recruited a band of local Sea Scouts to (unsuccessfully) sail the vessel off the coast...
...Stevenson's resolution was novel. In May, the artist staged an elaborate ceremony at NAK, where The Gift was dismantled and sawn into portions for the two dozen collectors, called Twodo. The bizarre event, presided over by an anthropologist from Cambridge and mimicking the gifting rituals of islands like Roti, brought Stevenson even closer to his subject. Ultimately he saw Fairweather, who was forced to dig ditches in Devon after being deported from Roti, as "a very exemplary case history" of the struggling artist who must barter to survive...