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Upon entering the gallery space, one is greeted by sculptor Tom Butter’s whimsical Hung With Grief (2002), a fiberglass cylinder with miniature steel girders for “legs” standing in an old pair of untied shoes. The sculpture resembles a man dressed in a barrel welcoming the viewer to the exhibition with its goofy sense of humor. Butter will be teaching “Three-Dimensional Artmaking” and “Sculpture I” this fall...
...same, at ground level the church lacks the imposing central portal that has signified a great church from the time of the Gothic cathedrals. Instead, the main entrance is set off to one side, marked by a pair of 30-ft.-high bronze doors designed by the sculptor Robert Graham. And what those doors open onto is not the central aisle that leads to the altar but a long side corridor with a series of small chapels along its right, a passage that offers almost no glimpse of the main interior...
DIED. LARRY RIVERS, 78, iconoclastic painter and sculptor who helped pave the way for the Pop Art movement; of liver cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. After studying the old masters in Paris, Rivers injected ironic humor into the earnest, Abstract Expressionist-dominated art world of the 1950s, with such works as Washington Crossing the Delaware, a parody of the famous American painting. A saxophonist, writer and sometime actor (appearing in the Beat-era underground film Pull My Daisy), he was both self-promoting and self-deprecating. Hospitalized once in the '80s, he envisioned his obituary headline as GENIUS OF THE VULGAR...
...DIED. EDUARDO CHILLIDA, 78, Basque abstract sculptor whose works, known for combining grace with colossal size, earned him the nickname "Man of Iron"; in San Sebastian, Spain. Giving up careers in soccer and architecture, Chillida moved to Paris in 1948 to set up his first studio, but returned to Spain two years later. His piece Comb of the Winds, featured on Spanish coins, became a symbol of the ongoing conflict in Chillida's native Basque region...
...think. I hate to look at those. The worst, of course, is The Silver Chalice [a 1954 biblical epic]. The other failures were minimal compared to that disaster. Virginia Mayo was in it, and Jack Palance was in it, and a couple of camels. I'm a sculptor, and I'm seeking enlightenment...