Serra
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Arts
Serra’s ‘Splash’: A Public Artist’s Private Breakthrough
Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture.
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Arts
Serra’s ‘Splash’: A Public Artist’s Private Breakthough
Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture.
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When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial
The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.
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For Richard Serra, Art Was Not Something. It Was Everything.
When Richard Serra died yesterday, I flashed back nearly 30 years to a morning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking with him and with his wife, the German-born art historian Clara Weyergraf, at Jackson Pollock’s splash and drip painting from ...
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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
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