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Par Infinity: Earth Putt // Putt Works at Will Brown Gallery

by Christina Catherine Martinez
Water de Maria, Ant Farm, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Long, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Smithson, James Turrell at Will Brown July 1st, 2012 - August 12th, 2012
Posted 8/10/12

“The par is three for every hole,” we were told matter-of-factly, “except number two, which is par seventeen, and number seven, which is par infinity.” I didn’t like the sound of that, but the potential embarrassment of swinging into the night was outweighed by the shame of giving up. We’ll deal with it when we deal with it. Land art is not an exclusively American phenomenon, and neither is miniature golf, but we have muscled ourselves into being primarily associated with them. Land art (o... [more]

A True California Scenario

by Kate Wolf
Isamu Noguchi at Laguna Art Museum June 12th, 2011 - October 2nd, 2011
Posted 8/30/11

Noguchi: California Legacy currently on view at the Laguna Art Museum, presents two projects created by famous modern sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi in Southern California during the early 1980’s (a third installation, What is Sculpture?, the artist’s “Akari” series made for the ‘86 Venice Biennale, seems to have been thrown in willy nilly). Of the California works, the most compelling is certainly California Scenario, a sculpture garden Noguchi completed in 1982 on 1.6 acres in Costa... [more]