It's the End of the World as We Know It Nov 14, 2009
There's always a subplot bubbling on a back burner that Emmerich can cut away toI was particularly fond of the one involving George Segal and Blu Mankuma as grizzled jazz musicians stranded on a cruise ship. There are also Tibetan monks, Russian gangsters and their Prince Charles Spaniel-toting bimbo girlfriends, and the president's foxy daughter played by Thandie Newton, who's helping preserve the world's art treasures for posterity. (Slate)
Vincent Fecteau makes old new again at SFMOMA Sep 3, 2009
But the exhibition's sexual overtones crackle within a charged, but muted, psychological atmosphere to which nearly everything on hand contributes, from a spooky early painting by Jess (1923-2004), to Wilmarth's "Glass Drawing" (1967), a tight grid of small, fractured glass panels, and a half-comic, half-grotesque blob of pigmented resin titled "Chicken, From 7 Objects in a Box" (1965) by George Segal (1924-2000). Of the psychological vapors in "Not New Work," Fecteau said, "I think it's a very... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Editors Choice: Sculptor George Segal exhibit will Stop in Kansas City May 29, 2009
Sculptor George Segal exhibit featured at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City from May 9 to Aug. 2. From a cluster of figures crossing a street, all lost in their own world, to a lone man replacing the lettering on a cinema marquee, sculptor George Segal explored the human condition in an urban atmosphere ... There's plenty more city life in his latest exhibition, "George Segal: Street Scenes" It's the first Segal exhibition to focus on his street scenes and features 16 of his works... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Sculptures explore emotion Feb 14, 2009
Think of works evocative of loneliness and alienation, like those by painter Edward Hopper or sculptor George Segal, and you get the sense of what some of the work expresses. And, there are works that are highly symbolic and explore the reaches of human history. (Florida Today)
