Author: Marin R. Sullivan

• The Absence of Monuments

  20 March 2013

  public things

  Firdos Square, Iraq War, public sculpture

  “Historically, the monument–as distinguished from all other things that are present–was supposed to endure for all time.”¹ The monument, here used in relation to public sculpture, is a particular kind of thing. By virtue of its placement in an open, accessible location, it reaches a wide audience and because of this reach is often understood…

• Tony Smith Public Art Wiki Project

  16 March 2013

  public things

  Public art

  Just a quick post about a really fantastic and very public project on public sculpture.  The International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art – North America (INCCA-NA) teamed up with Wikipedia’s WikiProject Public Art in August 2012 to launch the Artist Research Project, selecting the American sculptor Tony Smith as the inaugural artist. The…

• Objects – Things – Sculpture

  15 March 2013

  thinking about the sculptural

  In an interview with Phyllis Tuchman in 1970, the American sculptor Carl Andre remarked: “My art springs from my desire to have things in the world that would otherwise never be there. By nature, I am a materialist, and admirer of Lucretius…. The sense of one’s being in the world is confirmed by the existence…