Word: serra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three of the representatives--Emanuel G. Serra (D-East Boston), John F. Cox (D-Lowell) and Flaherty--have already reimbursed their campaign accounts for the money they spent on the Puerto Rican Trip...
...this problem head on. It moves between nature and culture, referring to earlier art and yet coming out of intense experiences of the real world of rocks and trees and human bodies. She interrogates and reimagines the language of figurative sculpture with the same degree of intensity that Richard Serra's work brings to the idea of abstract minimalism. Until a full retrospective of her work is done in the U.S., these two shows give a fair idea...
...faces, and she gives each one a chance to shine. The dark, committed faces of Jerusalem -- so alike and yet so dissimilar, and each so convinced of its beliefs -- stand in stark contrast to the sunny, open, uncomplicated American visages of the third act. An American, the sculptor Richard Serra, says blithely, "Abraham Lincoln High School, 'High on the hilltop midst sand and sea' -- that's about as far as I trace Abraham." Coming as it does after two acts of religious zealotry, the comment expresses a contemporary, secular kind of cultural truth -- Who cares who Abraham...
...cultivate the arts and sciences in the new nation." Considered one of the most prestigious scholarly institutions, its membership is heavily academic. Along with Hughes, only 15 people in the fine-arts fields were elected this year -- among them cellist Yo Yo Ma, choreographer Jerome Robbins and sculptor Richard Serra...
...went with the development of iron as a medium of sculpture. We are used to it now: half the corporate plazas of America are cluttered with large and often otiose welded objects. Now and again a real masterpiece is produced in iron -- most recently, the astonishing work by Richard Serra, Intersection II, that was on view until last week at the Gagosian Gallery in SoHo. But the Guggenheim's exhibition rewinds the tape of art history to the time when iron was not an expected material, and makes the rusty stuff seem marvelous again...