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...project on the Isle of Skye--lighting an entire mountain known as the Storr--was Farquhar's most ambitious. Unfolding Landscape took four years of planning and paperwork, cost about $1.8 million and used 22 tons of lights and rigging. The effect, when the weather cooperated and the Scottish mist was just right, drew raves and won Britain's most prestigious lighting-design award. For six weeks last summer, some 6,500 visitors--200 a night--donned boots and waterproofs, picked up headlamps and walking sticks, and made the strenuous two-mile trek to the base of the cliffs, accompanied...
...Rome, and depict agonized, bloodied prisoners being tortured and bound by U.S. military guards. Botero says he was driven by shock at the prisoners' accounts, which haunted him for months. Yet some question even that. "It seems a willed attempt by a comedian to do tragedy," says Robert Storr, former senior curator of paintings at moma and now a professor at New York University...
...manifesto-like leaflet reads. "However, this information has already prompted many individuals to devote their entire energy to the transitional process?" Following up on the ground, et al.'s commissioner Greg Burke has been traveling the world's art capitals. "This morning in L.A. I had breakfast with Rob Storr, who is, among other things, the director of Venice 2007," he reports. While Australia will host a series of intimate breakfasts in Venice, New Zealand opted for the preemptive strike. For the critics who count, "minds are being made up even before they get to the Vernissage," says Burke...
...should "be able to articulate what this work is about." But all was forgiven in October, when et al. took out the nation's top art award for restricted access, an installation that included footage of Holmes chastising the artists. The Walters Prize judge was 2007 Biennale director Robert Storr, giving the artists a head start for this year's race...
...name, the work has been around for some time, so how come you didn't grasp before how good the artist is, and how wide the work's scope? That's how it is with the retrospective of the German painter Gerhard Richter, beautifully organized by curator Robert Storr for New York City's Museum of Modern Art. (It will be on view there until May 21, before traveling to Chicago, San Francisco and Washington...