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...Sultan's work that seems unequivocally successful is his drawings -- big, densely worked silhouettes of tulips and lemons, with so much charcoal ground into the paper over repeated layers of fixative that its blackness is velvety and palpable, with something of the richness of Jasper Johns' encaustic or Richard Serra's paintstick drawings. Sultan is highly sensitive to the play of black and white. In drawings like Black Tulip May 23, 1983, he gives his shapes an admirable, embodied decisiveness: you sense that they have all been the subject of hard aesthetic argument. The tulip stems swoon like Margot Fonteyn...
Twelve feet high and 120 ft. long, Richard Serra's Tilted Arc stretches like a rampart across the plaza of a federal office building in New York City. It seems only fitting that, as the centerpiece in a drawn-out battle over artists' rights, the steel wall sculpture even looks like a barricade. In % 1985, after workers in the area complained that it inhibited use of the site, the U.S. General Services Administration, which had commissioned the $175,000 piece, recommended its removal. That galvanized the art world and provoked Serra to fight in federal court against any attempt...
...voted to remove from its chambers murals it had commissioned in 1980. Artists Alden Mason and Michael Spafford went to court. In a novel ruling, State Superior Court Judge Terrence Carroll held that the works themselves had rights that prohibited their destruction, though not their removal. But Mason, like Serra, says his work is site specific and that moving it is tantamount to destroying...
When the Tukanos found gold in the Serra do Traira region in 1984, the Salesians' paternalistic domain began to crumble. Soon hundreds of Indians were panning streams, only to encounter exploitation from white buyers who paid them 50% below market price for the gold. Then about 2,000 well-armed white garimpeiros (prospectors) appeared. To garimpeiros, "Indians are wild animals -- brutes," says one former prospector. A garimpeiro, he adds, "is not afraid to kill or be killed. He earns easy, spends easy." These prospectors have recently been supplanted by two powerful mining companies that have government concessions to prospect...
According to The Herald, Serra was among at least 40 former and current state representatives who billed the state for a total of at least 400 days of commuting pay for days when they missed all roll call votes...