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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Olafur Eliasson has evolved a body of “objectless” work ranging from discrete installations to museum-wide environments. His latest triumph: the New York City Waterfalls, on public view through October.
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Ellen Phelan’s art evokes the experience of her singular vision: a remembrance of things past so firmly rooted in collective longing that no matter the medium she chooses, this longing becomes tangible and observable.
>>>Novelist Percival Everett may shy away from media attention, but this author of more than 15 works of well-received fiction has a hard-earned reputation for the integrity and honesty of his writing—not to mention his stylistic range.
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Francisco Goldman’s third novel, The Divine Husband, a tale of epic love in the U.S. and Latin America (forthcoming from Grove in August), revolves around José Martí, the august poet, essayist, journalist, orator and Cuban revolutionary.
>>>Since his earliest documetaries, Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth has always worked with a set of strict principles that he lays out for himself at the beginning of each project—a technique that inspired Denmark’s Dogme movement.
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1931, Mauricio Kagel is one of the most distinctive and prolific composers in contemporary music. Keyboardist Anthony Coleman took a seminar from Kagel in 1981 that was a turning point in his career.
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New York-based cartoonist Ben Katchor is a recorder of vanished and vanishing places. His latest project, a full-blown musical-theater production titled The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, brings his drawings and writings to the stage.
>>>Michael Bell represents a new breed of architectural practitioner and professor: one who maintains the centrality of the political while deploying the latest forms of design practice.
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Hernan Bas was one of the 2007 Miami Art Fairs’ stars, combining a fey vision with an expressionist brush. Catch Roberto Juarez’s early take on the artist.
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