Art in America

Art in America, the world’s premier art magazine, delivers in-depth coverage of the global contemporary art scene. Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today’s leading artists, curators and historians.

Art in America

Sculpture Now

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Departments • + Turn the page for a special Spotlight section of reviews from the Venice Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and Documenta

Venice Biennale • Cecilia Alemani’s exhibition is visually rich and conceptually murky.

Venice Biennale: The US Pavilion • Golden Lion winner Simone Leigh presents Black female sculptural figures that stake their claim—physically and morally—as America’s true representatives.

Berlin Biennale • “Still Present!” supplies a provocative—but ultimately unsatisfying—answer to political art’s existential woes.

Documenta 15 • Friendship meets antagonism in “lumbung,” the German quinquennial’s latest edition.

Yooyun Yang • A Korean painter imbues everyday scenes with a tender, haunting ambience.

Amanda Hunt • The new head of public engagement, learning, and interpretation at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis discusses community building and representation, along with related interests.

Sartorial Studies • A style-challenged curator needs a new look.

Reading Material • Artists tell us about a key book they read this year and how it affected their practice.

History’s Painter • In a long-awaited monograph, art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh reckons with the work of Gerhard Richter.

What Is Sculpture? • Four curators consider how sculpture’s elusive definition brushes against the fluid practices of today’s artists.

KAREN LEMMEY • Curator of sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

ALEXIS LOWRY • Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York

JULIETA GONZÁLEZ • Artistic director, Inhotim Museum, Brumadinho, Brazil

KYLE DANCEWICZ • Deputy director, SculptureCenter, New York

From GRAVEL PITS To SCULPTURE PARKS • The pioneering Land Reclamation as Sculpture initiative in 1970s Seattle introduced an ecocritical dimension to Land art.

MAKING SPACE • In interwar Poland, Katarzyna Kobro advanced a new vision of the relationship between sculptural form and social life.

DRAWING SUPPORT • Do Ho Suh’s latest project extends his decades-long interest in the visual language of memorialization.

MONUMENTS for THE MOMENT • Sculptors grounded in craft often present dual narratives: the social history of their subjects and the physical history of their process.

THING THEORY • Four sculptors discuss the forces that shape objects—and the ethics and implications of remaking them.

AUTHORSHIP & AUTHORITY • The contested origins of Dakar’s African Renaissance Monument.

Piero Gilardi • Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York

Toronto Biennial • Multiple venues

William Wegman • Sperone Westwater, New York

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho • 47 Canal, New York

Ani Liu • Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York

Joshua Rashaad McFadden • George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York

Oscar Murillo • Saint Louis Art Museum

“New Earthworks” • Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe

Kathleen Henderson • Track 16, Los Angeles

“Pioneers” • Musée du Luxembourg, Paris

Hands On • A.i.A. Hangs with the People Who Handle the Art