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BOOKS
Caroline A. Jones on Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History
FILM
Thad Ziolkowski on Riding Giants
Isaac Julien on Baadasssss!
MEDIA
Abigail Solomon-Godeau on the image wars
ON SITE
Tom Vanderbilt on new-model flash mobs
PERFORMANCE
Jonathan Gilmore on William Kentridge's Ritorno d'Ulisse
SLANT
David Rimanelli on giving his class homework
NEWS
Peter Plagens on the Whitney's new curators
TOP TEN
Lucy McKenzie
Black-Box Theater: Minimalism Revisited
Specific Objections: Three Exhibitions
Yve-Alain Bois
Wear and Care: Preserving Judd
Ann Temkin
Artists' Takes
Josiah McElheny, Robert Gober, and Andrea Zittel
Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artists' Writings, 1960–1975
Jeffrey Weiss
1000 Words: Anthony McCall
Jeffrey Kastner
No More Scale: The Experience of Size in Contemporary Sculpture
James Meyer
Portfolio: Ed Ruscha
Scott Rothkopf
Openings: Taft Green
Jan Tumlir
John Kelsey on
John Waters
Barry Schwabsky on
Raoul De Keyser
Daniel Birnbaum on
Anri Sala
Carol Armstrong on
Giuseppe Penone/Kiki Smith
Michelle Kuo on
"Son et Lumière"
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No More Scale: The Experience of Size in Contemporary Sculpture
In his essay "Size Matters" (2000), Robert Morris noted that a "Wagner effect"—a tendency toward gigantic, literally awe-inspiring sculptures and installations—seemed to be overtaking contemporary art practice. Four years later, art historian James Meyer finds that the "Wagner effect" is alive and well, having reached a kind of double apotheosis in Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project at Tate Modern and in the sublime vistas of Dia:Beacon. Tracing this tendency from the somatically scaled canvases of Abstract Expressionism through the present day—and elucidating the role that "unrelenting global museological competition" plays in its development—Meyer sheds critical light on our Brobdingnagian moment. |