Tag: Ursula von Rydingsvard

Thomas Houseago: Night Sea Journey

You can feel the energy ricocheting between Houseago and his hulking, portentous figures as he takes us on a journey from darkness to light
Rachael Louise Bailey – interview: ‘It’s good to work with something that stirs you’

From the synthetic detritus of the oyster industry washed up on the Kent coast and the organic softness of sheep’s fleece, Bailey conjures up fascinating work. She explains what motivates her and how she became obsessed by these two very…
New Orleans Museum Unveils Sculpture Garden Expansion

Devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the sculpture garden now has a spacious new extension and almost 30 additional works, including commissions from Teresita Fernández, Maya Lin and Elyn Zimmerman
José Parlá: ‘It challenges me to work against the grain of the status quo’

For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000-sq-foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin’s natural and urban environment
A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition

Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013
Ursula von Rydingsvard: interview

This is her moment. Named Storm King Art Center’s artist of the year, she has just come off a travelling retrospective and is hard at work on three outsize projects.