Sally Eckhoff

Nov 25, 2024 | villagevoice.com | R.C. Baker |Sally Eckhoff |Liz Scheer |Shana Nys Dambrot

With concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, polydextrous interdisciplinary artist and occasional architect Olafur Eliasson continues his multisensory, multiplatform advocacy on behalf of Earth’s natural magic. Eliasson — who New Yorkers will remember from the large-scale, site-specific 2008 Waterfall installations at four locations on the East River waterfront — is currently tearing the roof off Los Angeles. Literally.

Nov 19, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Sally Eckhoff |Gideon Leek |R.C. Baker

Void Corporation, Blake Butler’s new novel, isn’t new. He already published it under a different title, Alice Knott, in 2020. You’d be forgiven for being confused. Butler’s popular — and wrenching — 2023 memoir, Molly, was a breakthrough, for him and his indie publisher, Archway Editions.

Sep 16, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Sally Eckhoff |Ben Gambuzza |R.C. Baker

It’s hard to hurl criticism at Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York, Marin Kosut’s new book, that the author hasn’t already anticipated, levied at herself, and responded to in the text. What do her editors at Columbia University Press think of the book? Oh, probably something about how Art Monster “isn’t the book I proposed to write,” as she admits in the acknowledgments. So what? “If my perspective seems shifty, it’s because I’ve changed.” What do her academic peers think?

Jan 4, 2024 | laweekly.com | Sally Eckhoff

A spiral, when you think about it, works like an inside-out labyrinth. The end is completely visible from the outside. If you can walk it, there’s hypnotic pleasure in following your feet to the center. That’s the experience promised by Spiral Jetty, the monumental earthwork that arcs through the blood-red waters at Rozel Point, in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. This is a massive sculpture — a 1,500-foot-long rock pathway conceived and built in 1970 by the enigmatic artist Robert Smithson.

Dec 20, 2023 | villagevoice.com | Sally Eckhoff

A spiral, when you think about it, works like an inside-out labyrinth. The end is completely visible from the outside. If you can walk it, there’s hypnotic pleasure in following your feet to the center. That’s the experience promised by Spiral Jetty, the monumental earthwork that arcs through the blood-red waters at Rozel Point, in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. This is a massive sculpture — a 1,500-foot-long rock pathway conceived and built in 1970 by the enigmatic artist Robert Smithson.