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Art at the Extremes [Seattle Times]
Amid the jostling crowd in the contemporary galleries at the Museum of Modern Art, people are yammering on cellphones, others wander blank-eyed, glued to their audio-tours... They don't seem to notice, or care about, the wrenching subject of their backdrop: two dismembered corpses... A month earlier and half a country away, on a sprawling 340-acre former military base in West Texas, I turn up my collar against the wind and stare with a few friends across a silent field at massive concrete forms silhouetted against the sky. A scattering of converted artillery sheds and barracks along the path ahead of us hold sculptural installations that represent one artist's enduring vision... Like the Museum of Modern Art and the Barnes Collection, the installations at the Chinati Foundation are an important altar of modern art. But at Marfa, there is an advantage: You see art as the artists intended for it to be seen, in a context that highlights the work's internal rhythm and integrity. Here art that might seem difficult or obscure plunked in a museum group show suddenly comes to life, installed in a progression of the artist's own design. full article

The Non-Manhattan Project [New York Magazine]
Tubular Belles, Dan Flavin [Telegraph]