Times

Three articles from the New York Times



A Broken City. A Tree. Evening.
Holland Cotter writes about Paul Chan’s production of “Waiting for Godot,” set in the badly damaged Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.

You Can’t Hold It, but You Can Own It
Tino Sehgal's art is completely immaterial; it can be bought and sold without involving any objects whatsoever. Mr. Sehgal creates what he calls “staged situations”: interactive experiences that may not even initially declare themselves as works of art.

Shh! It’s a Secret Kind of Outside Art "Since James Turrell bought the 400,000-year-old, two-mile-wide crater in 1979 and began moving tons of earth to carve out different kinds of viewing chambers and tunnels — making his art of light, sky and astronomical events instead of, say, paint and canvas — anticipation has been building. Writers have compared it to Stonehenge and the Mexican pyramids.

The question is when will it be finished. After early reports that it would be completed in the late 1980s, that date has been pushed back several times for financial and artistic reasons. Some suspect that the monumental work will be “finished” only with the artist’s death."