Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
The displays of color field painting and minimalist art (Morris Louis, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, etc. are also brilliant. (Boston Globe)
Things to do before summer ends Aug 27, 2009
The 120-piece exhibit includes a buttery yellow, hand-sewn fabric VW Beetle by Margarita Cabrera, colorful and almost psychedelic paintings by Carolyn Castano and a sculpture by minimalist artist Carl Andre. Details: 625 N. Central Ave. Open Wednesdays-Sundays. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Gordon Bensley, 84; advanced the teaching of visual arts Jul 24, 2009
Several of Mr. Bensley s students went on to make significant contributions to the art world, including painters Frank Stella, Carroll Dunham, and Peter Halley; sculptors Carl Andre, Mel Kendrick, and Wade Saunders; and photographer and filmmaker Hollis Frampton. He never said I; it was always we, Mrs. Bensley recalled. (Boston Globe)
'Herb & Dorothy' looks at longtime art collectors Jul 10, 2009
In the mid-1960s and 1970s, minimalism and conceptualism were largely unheralded, and the Vogels liked the cerebral work of Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Joseph Kosuth, and Sol Lewitt. Close says that what s remarkable about Herb and Dorothy is how they loved the most difficult, unlovable pieces. (Boston Globe)
Andrea K. Scott: “Compass in Hand,” at MOMA. May 11, 2009
Nearly every name from Carl Andre to Andrea Zittel is a well-worn notch on the art-circuit belt, and, at times, status seems to trump strength. (Why line a whole wall with meek diagrams by the usually scathing Cady Noland. (New Yorker)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
The exhibition, and a catalog of lasting interest that accompanies it, also puts classics of late-20th century New York art, including works by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and Carl Andre, into an unaccustomed context with West Coast art and its Asian inspirations. Seven thematic sections. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Dodging and disguise in Gay Outlaw's artworks Feb 15, 2009
She rebuffs the clean abstraction of floor-hugging minimalist work by artists such as Tony Smith (1912-1980) and Carl Andre, while recalling the influence of Japanese prints on early Modernism. Outlaw has Hokusai's image spilling into a sort of landscape sculpture. (San Francisco Chronicle)
