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    Leading Contemporary Artists Donate Work to Raise Funds for the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation  Sep 8, 2008
    Dale Chihuly, Anthony Goicolea, Ed Ruscha, Ugo Rondinone, David Salle, Richard Serra, Albert Watson Among 100 Artists in Auction to Support Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation ... Artists who will be donating their work include Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Alexander, Anthony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, John Baeder, Jennifer Bain, Sarah Baley, Michael Behle, Carlos Betancourt, Cecilia Biagini, Beth Block, Ilya Bolotowsky, Andrea Bonfils, Leslie Bostrom, Olaf Breuning, Romero Britto, Lawrie Brown,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Urban art with a green heart  Sep 7, 2008
    Of course the 21 sculptures take center stage, representing such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, and Ellsworth Kelly. The most provocative sculpture is Mark Dion's "Neukom Vivarium." The New Bedford native and Pennsylvania resident custom-designed a greenhouse that houses a 60-foot-long western hemlock nurse log, whose decay and renewal represents the cycle of life. (Boston Globe)

    Should a statue of the Queen replace the fourth plinth commissions?  Aug 9, 2008
    No - let's commission a great, permanent modern sculpture by Richard Serra to show how serious we are about contemporary art August 8, 2008 11:00 AM ... A Richard Serra sculpture on the fourth plinth ... Tony Cragg would be a better choice than Richard Serra. (guardian.co.uk)

    Education Notes (July 24)  Jul 24, 2008
    The commencement address was delivered by Richard Serra, artist and sculptor. Landy makes dean s list. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)

    Snapshot of the West Central Georgia Shutterbugs  Jul 4, 2008
    Derrick wrote on Jul 2, 2008 10:50 PM:" To be honest, the photographs are "random" and conventional, at best. I really see nothing artistic about them. Anyone can take a picture of a horse or a field of flowers or a tree. Look at the work of Ansel Adams, Francesca Woodman, Nina Katchadourian, Helnwein, Connie Imboden (Savannah-resident), Sally Man, Man Ray, Richard Serra, etc., etc. to name a few to get a better idea of the artistic-side of photography... ". Submit a Comment. (Thomaston Times, GA)

    Goya at the Prado: Admiring the artist in all his moods  Jul 3, 2008
    The sculptor Richard Serra saw the show recently and told me, with a kind of rapture, that he was amazed by all the different ways Goya painted white. "The Third of May," in particular, depends on whites: Under a black sky, the white of the shirt of the captive who kneels before the firing squad, arms flung open, is illuminated by the glare of the square yellow-white lantern before him. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Karl Lagerfeld's pipes  Jul 2, 2008
    Metallic and majestic, the pipes rose to the glass dome of the Grand Palais with all the graphic weight of the recent Richard Serra exhibition. Yet the installation was not contemporary art but at a Chanel show. (International Herald Tribune)

    Commencements  Jun 2, 2008
    Speaker: Richard Serra, artist and sculptor. Honorary degrees: Serra; actor LeVar Burton; George Shultz, former US secretary of state; Robert Lipp, financial director and adviser; economist Frances Cairncross; and Dr. Nawal Nour, women's health advocate. (Boston Globe)

    Webby win gives sites an edge with visitors  Jun 1, 2008
    The Museum of Modern Art in New York earned best art site award for its online component to last years' "Richard Serra Sculpture: 40 Years" exhibit, which in addition to still photos and videos of pieces in the exhibition also included videos of the sculpture garden installation filmed in fast motion, showing changes from day to night. Best television winner "HBO Voyeur" is an intriguing collection of online dramas set in Manhattan apartment buildings, where viewers could click on a window and... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Larger than life  May 13, 2008
    Richard Serra's new sculpture is nothing if not epic: five giant metal slabs tilting and leaning in a stunning, light-filled setting ... The sculptor Richard Serra at the Grand Palais in Paris ... Richard Serra, approaching 70, strides ahead of me, light-footed and full of purpose. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Serra's gargantuan art in Paris  May 8, 2008
    Richard Serra's "Promenade," five slabs of steel set along the central axis of the Grand Palais ... France is making a fuss this week over Richard Serra, the 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    At MFA painting exhibiton, see the future of art  Apr 13, 2008
    Was this not the site where artists such as a Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Jennifer Bartlett showed. Mostly devoid of information such as artist name or title, the work was arranged in the gallery space by the students as a part of the collaborative artistic process. (Yale Herald, CT)

    Donald Bryant wants to open art collection to general public  Mar 31, 2008
    "Don has an extraordinary collection of 20th-century art, ranging from modern masters such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Richard Serra and many others to younger artists at the end of the 20th century, such as Charles Long, a sculptor who just had a show at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to the current generation of artists who are forging their way into the next century," said Rochelle Steiner, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. "It is a wonderful... (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)

    Seattle, Victoria hotel & cruise, $439  Feb 27, 2008
    While in Seattle, we suggest checking out one of the city's newest attractions: a nine-acre former industrial site along the edge of Elliott Bay that has been transformed by the world-class Seattle Art Museum into a green space with gorgeous views and works by the likes of Richard Serra and Ellsworth Kelly. After spending a day exploring Seattle on your own, you'll board the Victoria Clipper ferry for a two-and-a-half-hour ride to Victoria, B.C. You'll stay overnight at the 181-room , a... (MSNBC -- Travel)

    Julian Schnabel revisits his 'day job'  Feb 23, 2008
    They stood together in a secluded upstairs gallery adorned with small drawings by Richard Serra. "I wanted to show some paintings," Schnabel added. (Los Angeles Times)

    Forty artists to explore 'Life on Mars' in International  Feb 22, 2008
    " Andrew Carnegie's intent was to bring the best current art to Pittsburgh as well as to attract the broader art world to the city. He also quickly recognized that by exhibiting the "Old Masters of tomorrow," his institution would have the opportunity to build its collection by purchasing work from the show. While not all artist's reputations stand the test of time, there have been notables among those whose works were acquired for the Carnegie collection through the Internationals, including... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public  Feb 18, 2008
    Broad also recently gave LACMA an additional $10 million to purchase the monumental "Band" (2006) by Richard Serra, an enterable sculpture that stood out by its size and complexity in Serra's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "Band" currently anchors the first floor of BCAM, along with the related, artistically superior, piece "Sequence" (2006), which belongs to Gap owners Don and Doris Fisher. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    L.A.'s Broad museum opens doors  Feb 8, 2008
    The ground floor is devoted to the museum's centerpiece, two Richard Serra steel sculptures from 2006, "Band" and "Sequence." Similar to his enormous pieces in Bilbao and one displayed at Gotham's MoMA last year, the steel works are nearly 13 feet high. "Sequence" is a spiral maze that takes the viewer, who walks alongside the work, to a good-sized circular center; "Band" is more of a bent wall. (Variety)

    Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio Endorsed by Presidio Trust  Jan 31, 2008
    The Fisher collection includes important works from artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer. In addition to the new museum building, the CAMP project includes the rehabilitation of a nearby barracks, Building 101, which will house the museums bookstore and extensive public education programs, and will include a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    The bronze sorcerer  Jan 12, 2008
    In 1981, he spent a stimulating if unproductive year studying graphic art in New York - he made a single drawing, but befriended the minimalist sculptor Richard Serra. The following year, he returned to Madrid where, helped by a recommendation from Serra, he was able to curate a couple of exhibitions. (Guardian Unlimited)

    * Art collector may break the philanthropic mold  Jan 10, 2008
    He also gave US$10 million for the acquisition of works, which Broad said had already been spent on two pieces: a Richard Serra sculpture, Band, and a maplike tapestry by the artist Alighiero Boetti. This story has been viewed 328 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Eli Broad's art: A philanthropist opts not to give it all away  Jan 10, 2008
    He also gave $10 million for the acquisition of works, which Broad said had already been spent on two pieces: a Richard Serra sculpture, "Band," and a maplike tapestry by the artist Alighiero Boetti. This is not the first time that the county museum has missed out on the gift of a major collection from a prominent Los Angeles patron. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Otto Preminger  Jan 9, 2008
    A Year About Town: Richard Serra, Spring Awakening, and more from 2007. 00004000. (New Yorker)

    Art without the artist  Jan 7, 2008
    Who would expect Richard Serra to hand-install one of his thousand-ton steel sculptures, or for Christo and Jeanne-Claude to be out in Central Park hanging the 23 miles of nylon panels that made up "The Gates". But when viewing more intimate works, especially sculpture and painting, part of the appeal has always been standing in the presence of the unique hand of the artist. (Boston Globe)

    Gone Missing  Jan 7, 2008
    A Year About Town: Richard Serra, Spring Awakening, and more from 2007. Draw your version of for a chance to be featured on newyorker. (New Yorker)

    Social ferment not always reflected in fermentation of artworks  Dec 31, 2007
    In 2004, Richard Serra, renowned throughout the world for massive sculptures in steel, made an image that circulated widely on the Internet. The thick black crayon is the same as in his sculpture-related drawings with their imposing geometric forms. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Pincus on art  Dec 24, 2007
    Inauguration of the Jacobs and Copley Buildings, with exhibitions of Ernesto Neto, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Richard Wright and Modern American Masters, permanent commissioned works by Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown; opening date: Jan. 21, 2007. 3. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Lust For Rust  Dec 23, 2007
    "There were two trucks carrying two giant pieces of rusted steel. It was either one of those giant outdoor sculptures of Richard Serra or it was the largest septic tank I've ever seen." Serra, whose "Tilted Arc" in Federal Plaza was so detested that it had to be removed, is hot now, following his show at MoMA. Perelman is pals with Serra's dealer, Larry Gagosian. . (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Spalding leaves mark on AGNS  Dec 10, 2007
    Spalding is thrilled with the acquisition of a major 1971 sculpture by Richard Serra, a famous American artist who lives in Cape Breton. That sculpture will be installed outdoors next year. (ChronicleHerald.ca)

    Craig-Martin, Who Taught Damien Hirst, Makes Comeback in Solo Show at 66  Dec 7, 2007
    Deeply unhappy'' after two years at New York's Fordham University, Craig-Martin studied fine art at Yale University alongside Richard Serra and Chuck Close, ``a great moment. . (Bloomberg -- UK)

    Proposed Presidio museum would be modern addition to historic military site  Dec 5, 2007
    It would resemble a long stack of overlapping cubes, with white masonry walls broken by stretches of clear glass to allow views of work inside by artists such as Alexander Calder and Richard Serra. If the proposal is accepted by Presidio officials, there also would be a network of terraces where sculptures could be displayed - including Serra's monumental "Sequence," a 14-foot-high, 65-foot-long maze of coiled steel that was the centerpiece of his acclaimed career retrospective during the summer... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Napa's Secret Art Cave  Dec 4, 2007
    Among the pieces on display in the cave are a Stonehenge-like sculpture by Richard Serra called "Square Level Forged," a room full of photographs surrounding a bronze cube by Keith Tyson, called "The Block," and "Adjustable Wall Bra," by Vito Acconci, an 8-by-22-by-6-foot sculpture that is a giant white bra with benches inside the cups for viewers to sit on, while listening to a recording of a woman breathing. Norman Stone, when asked what he liked about the bra, said, "The breast is a really... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Macy's parade  Nov 22, 2007
    It's tough to picture an airborne Richard Serra, although the balloon might be a good form for Henry Moore's organic shapes. Still, it might all be a puzzle for kids looking for new balloons they actually recognize, which this year include Abby Cadabby from "Sesame Street," a "Supercute" variation of Hello Kitty and that star of movies and home DVD, Shrek. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    Enormous steel sculpture lifted 12 stories  Oct 30, 2007
    He taught himself through trial and error, and by studying artists he admired - notably renowned sculptors Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra. "I just always liked the feeling of cutting steel," he said, rubbing his callused, gray-hued palms together. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Zahid Sardar/Design Spotting: Illuminating Seattle  Oct 28, 2007
    SAM's new outdoor gallery, filled with modern sculpture by international artists including Americans Alexander Calder and Richard Serra, was designed in an inverted-Z plan by architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. It consists of two parallel waterside parks connected by a diagonal bridge over rail tracks. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Smithsonian Given Castelli Records  Oct 20, 2007
    1936), Richard Serra (b. 1939) and Bruce Nauman (b. (Suite101.com)

    CMU exhibits produce balance  Oct 17, 2007
    As opposed to the rigor of a sculptor like Richard Serra, Briggs infuses steel with grace, taming it without mellowing it. The steel pieces here comprise either flat rectangular plates or open rings, the former solidly grounded, though appearing to have the potential to drift slowly off like a manta ray, while the latter encircle volumes of space, incorporating it as part of the whole. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for October 14  Oct 14, 2007
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14: RICHARD SERRA Profile America -- Sunday, October 14th ... Among those recognized during the month is Richard Serra, described by art critics as among the most significant sculptors of recent years ... Richard Serra is among the nation's 234,000 artists, of whom nearly 7 percent are Hispanic. (PR Newswire)

    Evicted Artist Sells Treasures  Sep 24, 2007
    " Wilson wrote in an e-mail: "I kept more than 3,000 pieces at the loft, not counting my own work: 20th-century furniture, tribal art, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, contemporary glass, Asian art and contemporary drawings, photographs, works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Man Ray, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Agnes Martin and Richard Serra. "My space has always been mostly about my artwork and my collection," Wilson said of his longtime sanctuary. (New York Post -- Gossip)

    Barney's rubble  Sep 20, 2007
    On this evidence, not only Damien Hirst, but also Richard Serra can rest easy. Who'd have thought there was so little blood in him. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Fidelity and Wisdom  Sep 13, 2007
    The firm has also designed studio spaces for Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close, Richard Serra and Francesco Clemente, as well as installations for PMA. A classic example of Art Deco architecture, the original structure was built in 1927 for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company by the same team who designed the neoclassical PMA, opened in 1928, and constructed from the same Minnesota dolomite. Even the color adviser for the Fidelity Mutual Life building was the same person to design the glazed... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)

    Napa Valley ArchitectureNapa's houses of wine  Aug 25, 2007
    " In real life, the winery tries to be ironic and awe-inspiring at once, a pompous spoof of classicism that includes a single enormous column at the entry. That said, stop by. The sculpture collection, with work by Henry Moore and Richard Serra, is dazzling. The procession of well-framed views and spaces show the ingenious care you expect from a serious architect - although the faded stucco could use freshening up. Napa is also home to the only building in the United States by Friedensreich... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Art For Our Sake  Aug 9, 2007
    " The Fishers have purchased works from some of the world's most famous modern artists, storing it away in their homes and in two galleries at the Gap's waterfront headquarters. The hallways leading to Fisher's office look like museums in their own right. One hallway features a series of colorful Mick Jagger portraits by Warhol, a Picasso lithograph and a wall covered in Lichtenstein pop art. Whimsical Calder mobiles float from ceilings, walls and hangers. Art experts say it is not the size of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio  Aug 9, 2007
    The Fisher Collection includes more than 1,000 works by Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer and numerous other leading artists. "Art is an important part of our life and we want to share our collection with the public so everyone can enjoy it," Donald Fisher said. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    * Cooling off at MoMA on a summer's day  Aug 2, 2007
    It is almost entirely taken up by two humongous sculptures by Richard Serra, whose work also claims the special exhibition gallery on the sixth floor and the second-floor space usually assigned to the museum's contemporary collection. The garden still has plantings and trees, but mostly you stare at towering rusted-steel Serra walls. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    The sculptor Anthony Caro pushes boundaries of space  Jul 27, 2007
    Yet unlike the vast pieces by Richard Serra that are currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art, which physically envelop the viewer, Caro's latest sculptures can be experienced only from a slight remove. There is no point of entry. (International Herald Tribune)

    Wynwood Gallery installations show the district's artistic heart  Jul 13, 2007
    He likens it to one of the hulking metal slabs cast by Richard Serra, though Serra's sculptures never came with a working winch and what looks like the first mate's initials faintly carved below a rust patch. It has a history,'' Murray says, affectionately stroking one odd indentation. (The Miami Herald)

    'Man of Steel' exhibit at MoMa  Jul 3, 2007
    Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years' runs to September 10 at MoMA ... Richard Serra's "Intersection II" looms over visitors to MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden this summer ... NEW YORK (CNN) -- Richard Serra stands in the Museum of Modern Art's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, his hair as white as the marble floor. (CNN)

    Toasting artist Richard Serra, San Francisco's man of steel  Jun 25, 2007
    Article:Toasting artist Richard Serra, San Francisco's man of s:/c/a/2007/06/24/PKGT3P11251. DTL Article:Toasting artist Richard Serra, San Francisco's man of s:/c/a/2007/06/24/PKGT3P11251 ... This week's cover story is a celebration of sculptor Richard Serra, who is getting his due with an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Serra's Critical Masses  Jun 24, 2007
    New York has given San Francisco native Richard Serra his due ... The weight of those works, and the fact that they took six weeks to install, explain why "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" will not travel ... Probably no museum in the world could afford to stage a presentation to match the title "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years." MOMA's massive catalog, itself like a slab of sculpture, contains a much more complete record of the art than any curator could hope to assemble in real... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Does Gehry's Stata Center Really Work?  Jun 21, 2007
    Another likens his office to living in a work by Richard Serra. These are guys who like challenges. (BusinessWeek)

    A day of spas, with a side of Syrah  Jun 20, 2007
    Rent at Calistoga Bikeshop (1318 Lincoln Ave.; 866/942-2453; from $25 a day), and be sure to stop at Clos Pegase (1060 Dunaweal Lane; 707/942-4981), a winery designed by Michael Graves; the sculpture garden includes works by Mark DiSuvero and Richard Serra. Don't miss. (CNN -- Travel)

    Opera, art, film on a grandiose scale 'Anselm Kiefer: Falling Stars'  Jun 17, 2007
    The series, known as Monumenta, will subsequently include such other maximalist masters as the sculptor Richard Serra and installation artist Christian Boltanski. Avenue Winston Churchill, 011-33-1-44-13-1769. (Boston Globe)

    The Mind-Bending Sculpture of Richard Serra  Jun 7, 2007
    Richard Serra at the Museum of Modern Art. - By Christopher Benfey - Slate Magazine. (Slate)

    Richard Serra  Jun 5, 2007
    Published: June 4, 2007. It's a landmark, by a titan of sculpture, one of the last great modernists in an age of minor talents, mad money and so much meaningless art. (International Herald Tribune)

    Kiefer: An artist with monumental force  Jun 1, 2007
    Kiefer, 62, whose specific exhibition is titled "Falling Stars," will be followed next year by Richard Serra, the American sculptor of weighty shapes in sheet metal. Christian Boltanski, the French installation artist who often fills entire rooms with one work of art, has been chosen for 2009. (International Herald Tribune)

    - Jonathan Jones  May 1, 2007
    Brice Marden and Richard Serra were born in 1938 and 1939 respectively, and were contemporaries at Yale. Their abstract art is as strong as anything in the American heritage. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Sydney has cause to reflect on LeWitt  Apr 25, 2007
    Even the fabulous velvet rust of a clanking Richard Serra offers little that you couldn't find, better, in a working shipyard. Then came Warhol, with his flaky I'm-just-in-it-for-the-money vainglory. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Inviting theatrical and bombastic art  Apr 6, 2007
    The colossal scale of the place does not have to be a problem - many artists find gargantuan scale interesting, from Michelangelo who dreamt of carving a colossus out of a mountain, to Richard Serra who creates outsized homages to the steel mill. But great art always has a sense of necessity, of compulsion. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)

    Defacing art: Artists at work?  Apr 5, 2007
    The sculpture being defaced is Richard Serra's massive 120-tonne steel piece, Tilted Spheres ... Richard Serra's work itself is not at all straightforwardly beautiful: It comes from a tradition of provocation that is not always friendly to its environment or its audience ... The graffiti on the Richard Serra sculpture has no such artistic intent, of course; it's mindless. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Puget Sound Garden  Mar 25, 2007
    " In the six-panel fold-out announcement of the park's opening, there isn't a single piece of sculpture pictured -- just grass, sky, water, trees and mountains. The lead designers, New York-based Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, faced additional challenges. Crisscrossing the site are train lines and a highway and, unlike the contaminated soil, they could not be removed. So Weiss and Manfredi created a new topography that rises above this infrastructure. It can't block the noise of trains and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)

    Mecca-Inspired Black Cube Finally Gets a Square Deal at Hamburg Kunsthalle  Mar 24, 2007
    There are Sol LeWitt's white cube structures, implausibly balanced heavy metal cubes by Richard Serra, fields of nails by Guenther Uecker, Yves Klein's blue ``Monochrome'' and Jean Tinguely's ``Meta-Malevich'' reliefs. There are geometrical, architectural and decorative squares. (Bloomberg -- Germany)

    Art in the Garbage May Signal Stealth Criticism: Martin Gayford Commentary  Mar 21, 2007
    Last year, the director of the Reina Sofia museum of modern art in Madrid shamefacedly revealed that her institution had lost track of a 38-ton piece by the U.S. sculptor Richard Serra, who makes you might call heavy-metal art. This work -- `` Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi,'' consisting of four massive blocks of steel -- had been commissioned in 1986 and taken out of display in 1990. (Bloomberg -- UK)

    Raymond D. Nasher, 85; banker, arts patron helped start 2 museums  Mar 21, 2007
    The $70-million Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 2003, includes pieces by Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Serra and Alexander Calder. In 2005, the Nasher Museum of Art opened at Duke University, his alma mater. (Los Angeles Times)

    The art of war  Mar 18, 2007
    Dimitri Papatheodorou is a Toronto-based architect and painter (and composer), whose exhibition at 1313, Encounters, has apparently inspired by the architecturally scaled works (the Torqued Ellipses, in particular) of American sculptor Richard Serra. It's not easy, especially at first, to see the links between Papatheodorou's delicate, ethereally painted pictures (you'd swear they were photographs) and the huge, sweaty Serra sculptures -- big Faustian bendings of heavy Cor-Ten steel. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Richard Serra unveils models of the massive sculptures he'll be showing  Mar 8, 2007
    In this 2006 photograph supplied by the Museum of Modern Art a work by sculptor Richard Serra is assembled at a foundry in Siegen, Germany ... In this 2006 photograph supplied by the Museum of Modern Art, an unidentified man stands inside of a work by sculptor Richard Serra at a foundry in Siegen, Germany ... NEW YORK -- The Museum of Modern Art's second floor gallery had to be specially reinforced to support the weighty works of sculptor Richard Serra. (North County Times)

    Too many memories?  Jan 26, 2007
    To see this you only have to consider the unlikely enthusiasm for memorials displayed by some of today's best artists and architects - Rachel Whiteread, Richard Serra (who originally co-designed Eisenman's monument) and Maya Lin ... I still can't decide if this is a compelling image or a trite one, but it is typical of contemporary art's desire to turn minimalism into an art of deep emotional content: it squares with an oxidised steel block designated by Richard Serra as a memorial to Primo... (Guardian Unlimited)

    Whiff of the new as modern art museum expands in San Diego  Jan 25, 2007
    The new exhibit space is woven into the fabric of downtown, with the glass doors at the rear of the foyer opening directly onto the working train platform, where commuters peered around a display of giant steel blocks by artist Richard Serra as a train master called out arrivals and departures for Amtrak service to Los Angeles one night last week. Along with the central, industrial-style 4,600-square-foot installation room -- whose arched windows and sliding wooden doors recall its origin as a... (North County Times)

    New Seattle sculpture park 'impressive'  Jan 25, 2007
    The biggest is "Wake" by Richard Serra five rust-colored steel slabs in 14-foot high curves that make people standing next to them feel as if they fell overboard. The 39-foot-tall "Eagle" by Alexander Calder perches on a prominent spot in the middle of the park on reddish-orange scythelike legs that cut through the gray of a winter day. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)

    Events preview 'a major dream realized'  Jan 22, 2007
    Weekend events preview 'a major dream realized. By Robert L. Pincus UNION-TRIBUNE ART CRITIC. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum  Jan 18, 2007
    During the last presidential campaign, Richard Serra, the sculptor known for his enormous, rusted-steel abstractions, created a work of vehement political partisanship. Using a thick black crayon, he drew a ragged, expressionistic silhouette of a hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner and emphatically scrawled above the scarecrow-like figure's shoulders "Stop Bush.". (Boston Globe -- Living)

    On the waterfront: Money and vision give Seattle a bold new vista  Jan 16, 2007
    Entering from the street through a sleek pavilion, visitors can walk toward an amphitheater with grassy terraces and the valley beyond, where "Wake" (2002-3), 10 wavelike steel plates by Richard Serra, evokes the ripples of Puget Sound in the distance. People can roam among the massive plates, which will be incorporated into future dance and theater performances. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Seattle's new art park  Jan 15, 2007
    The free-admission sculpture park will feature works by Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Beverly Pepper, Teresita Fernandez, Tony Smith and about 20 other artists. It is dotted with groves of trees, native plants and trails, against the stunning backdrop view of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains (which are visible more often than Seattle's rainy reputation might suggest). (Los Angeles Times)

    Businessman and broker. But at heart, a painter.  Jan 5, 2007
    What began in the 1950s with an art course at San Francisco's Lincoln High School, where sculptor Richard Serra was a classmate, became a lifelong passion. "It's always been fun for me to paint," Soulis says. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Modern art in park challenges  Dec 27, 2006
    The ring of gigantic white felt pads stands on curling cutout "legs." In material and form, Roosen is conversing with heroic (and male) minimalists such as Richard Serra and Robert Morris. Central Park is too quaint and constraining a site for the argument really to be heard. (Orlando Sentinel)

    Heavy metal: Santa Fe Depot  Dec 11, 2006
    The steel blocks in Richard Serra's 'Santa Fe Depot' are massive - in size and in artistic concept ... (2) PARALLEL LINES: Richard Serra has arranged them in two axis, mirroring the idea that there are train tracks running both directions ... Fact: The six blocks of forged steel in Richard Serra's permanent sculpture on the south-facing arcade of the soon-to-open quarters of the Museum of Contemporary San Diego downtown are all the same size. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    The Artful Billionaire  Dec 10, 2006
    The same drive that has made him such a pugnacious entrepreneur pushes him to accumulate ever grander pieces, including monumental works by sculptors like Richard Serra, whose steel structures can stretch hundreds of feet, and room-size installations by artists like Mike Kelley. Because he had no place to display them--80% of his art collection is still in storage--Pinault has scarcely seen some of the pieces he's bought. (Forbes)

    - Jonathan Jones on his definitive list of 50 must-see masterpieces  Dec 5, 2006
    Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses, widely championed, prove it is still possible to make great art today ... 43 Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses (1996), includes works on permanent view at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Daring artist as provocative in death as he was in life  Nov 20, 2006
    He worked within a world of the avant-garde, exemplified then by Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson and others. Gray's work reflects the dematerialization and conceptualization of art that exploded onto the scene in the 1960s and '70s. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Depths of meaning  Nov 13, 2006
    In the world of visual art, dozens of major modern painters and sculptors -- including Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Robert Indiana, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain and Jean-Michael Basquiat -- have also been influenced by the timeless tale of the Great White Whale. None, however, have immersed themselves in Melville's tale of the Pequod and the adventures of its crew as much as Stella, who has been one of America's most prominent and... (Albany Times Union)

    Read more...  Nov 10, 2006
    The Summit, which will encourage open dialogue among its 100 notable speakers including Bradbury Anderson, CEO of Best Buy; Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group; Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP Chief Executive Officer; Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia; HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Ambassador of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States, Richard Meier, Architect; Dr. Henry Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State; Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland; Bianca Jagger,... (PNN Online)

    Yale, Mass MoCA join to create new home for LeWitt's epic work  Oct 27, 2006
    "Think of the Menil Collection , in Houston, they have that really wonderful Rothko Chapel . There's the installation of Richard Serra sculptures in the heart of Guggenheim Bilbao. . ."When people think of Mass MoCA, they think, correctly, of changing exhibitions and work by young and mid-career artists. Having this anchor of wonderful work, largely fixed, by an artist of LeWitt's stature gives us a whole new dimension. (Boston Globe)

    Where you see a freeway, they see a gallery  Oct 21, 2006
    There's added synergy here since Pearson, operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, already sees itself as some sort of art centre, displaying work by a list of local and international artists including such A-list art star names as Richard Serra. "The airport didn't have any particular requirement as to the theme of the (Artstage) work," says Andrew Davies, curator for the $700,000 project. (Toronto Star -- Arts)

    The art of the new  Sep 17, 2006
    To fill the Bilbao museum's 427-foot-long Fish gallery, Krens paid Richard Serra $20 million to permanently install his 100-foot-long, 1,000-ton steel sculpture, Snake. Then the Tate Modern, which has a formidable permanent collection, also chose to commit a lot of space to new art and, eerily, also brought in a gigantic foreboding animal to help fill it. (Boston Globe)

    Local colleges and universities offer a wealth of inspiring art exhibits  Aug 31, 2006
    " Ward commanded the American forces besieging the British in Boston in April 1775, before George Washington took over. The show juxtaposes Ward's belongings with those of his more anonymous female descendants, who worked to preserve his place in history, and questions the role of gender in writing history.Also at the Fogg, ``DISSENT!" will examine political, religious, and social resistance in the context of printmaking, from Francisco Goya 's criticizing ideological suppression in Spain two... (Boston Globe -- Living)

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