THE NEW YORKER
Flying High
The summer installation at Lincoln Center of "Big Pleasure Point," an immense sculpture of old boats and assorted derelict fun craft by the Californian genius of junk...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lincoln Center's Proponent of Populism, Widening the Reach
Mr. Levy has overseen several other efforts by the center to loosen up a little. With the goal of making all sorts of people feel welcome...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Bouquet of Boats Blooming at Lincoln Center
Nancy Rubins is not much for seafaring. This California artist lives just a few miles from Malibu, in the heart of Topanga Canyon, but she does not care to go rowing or boating. When she sails, she needs to take...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Marooned Art
The 1964 fountain designed by Philip Johnson may seem like the only water for miles around Lincole Center, but Nancy Rubins, the 53 year-old artist who creates monumental works out of...
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ART IN AMERICA
Nancy Rubins at Paul Kasmin
Nancy Rubins has been scavenging and purchasing discarded airplane parts since the mid-'80s, when, moving to the Mojave Desert where such materials were plentiful, she began using...
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VILLAGE VOICE
Show World: Nancy Rubins
Just as new trees rise up from the loam of dead bark and leaves, Nancy Rubin's two "Small Forest" installations reanimate the wings, fuselages, and propellers of junked airplanes. Jagged, yards-wide...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Good Tail Fin Is Hard to Find
The inspiration she had been working with various kinds of debris for years before she began taking road trips in the mid 1980's with her boyfriend, the artist Chris Burden, who is now...
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ART IN AMERICA
Report from Mexico: Mexico City on the Move
Elsewhere, a dense and mesmerizing silver monochrome mural, made of countless layers of aluminum paint by Mexican artist Sofia Taboas...
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ART IN AMERICA
Nancy Rubins at Paul Kasmin
Creating absurd disproportion between uplifted mass and its visible support has long been Nancy Rubins's working premise. If Post-Minimalists like Richard Serra and Jene Highstein...
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ARTNEWS
Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins's nine conceptually witty drawings exhibited all of the playful sculptural presence of her weighty outcroppings of airplane wreckage, appliances, or mattresses hoisted...
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ARTNEWS
Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubin's magnificent single sculpture on view here seemed to grow in and around the gallery like a gnarled old tree twisting and turning to find the light. Rubin's rather prosaic title for the piece, made of...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Monuments of Junk Artfully Compacted
A few months ago, Nancy Rubins received a phone call from out of the blue. For her, it was like winning the Lotto. The director of a kunsthalle in Austria siad he had heard that Air France had a...
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ART IN AMERICA
Transient Monuments
From abandoned mattresses and massive shards of scrap metal, L.A. artist Nancy Rubins fashions giant assemblage-sculptures that usually exist only for the duration of temporary installations.
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