Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007
Serra's Triumph
By John Updike
Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
Catalog of the exhibition by Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke
an exhibition at the Museumof Modern Art, New York, June 3–September 10, 2007.
Museum of Modern Art, 419 pp., $75.00
No doubt about it, the show is a triumph, the biggest interactive art event in Manhattan since Christo's saffron flags fluttered in a wintry Central Park over two years ago. The day your reviewer attended Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, a sunny Monday in June, the two large sculptures in MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden were crowded with young families, small children, and hopeful couples negotiating hand in hand the narrow passageways of Intersection II (1992–1993; see illustration on page 18) or jollily huddling in the crescent of shade inside the sun-baked interior space of Torqued Ellipse IV (1998).
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