Word: sculptor
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This was not the road McMullen intended to travel. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist or a rock star. While still harboring the musician's dream, he started to work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted...
...Over the past two years, we have all benefited tremendously from Phelan's five-year plan to improve the VES program. Recent visiting faculty members include sculptor Joel Shapiro, performance artist/dancer/filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and photographer Boris Mikhailov; renowned director Hal Hartley and photographer Nan Goldin, along with many others, will come to the program next year. Working with these artists has provided us as students tremendous insight into the practice of the visual arts, opportunities to discuss our work at a professional level of criticism and connections with many artists with whom we will stay in touch after...
...shows a kind of olive-drab heart. Its major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including a professional balloon sculptor), working together and given motivation, can gut it out mentally and physically--that your real opponent is yourself...
...grind. Today, it seems, Korean directors can do just about anything. 1999's Yellow Hair was a sex shebang with orgies and lesbianism that left the viewer with third-degree eyeball burns. That year's Lies by Sun Woo-Jang was a sado-masochistic romance between a married sculptor and a high-school girl half his age, a class-act film that fashioned poetry from pornography and high-fived the current zeitgeist, though it is banned in Korea...
...Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score of his contemporaries, from the sculptor Eva Hesse to the critic Lucy Lippard. Selfless, sober, rational, public spirited--what, one is frivolously tempted to wonder, is such a paragon doing in the Whitney, an institution more noted in the '90s for staging tributes to delinquent cult figures like the late Robert Mapplethorpe and the equally late and even...