Anthropodino: A Conversation with Ernesto Neto

For its first commissioned art installation, the Park Avenue Armory and curator Tom Eccles invited Brazillian artist Ernesto Neto to design one of his amorphous, interactive installations for the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.  Anthropodino is a cavernous maze rendered from hundreds of yards of material suspended from the ceiling and spanning over 100 feet across the hall's truss. Throughout the main cavity, weighted arms drop down like stalactites, dividing the space into the vast series of tunnels and nooks that characterize Neto's immersive works. Jess Wilcox met with the artist on the occasion of his opening to discuss his latest project.

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The Pictures Generation: A Conversation with Douglas Eklund

Opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pictures Generation : 1974-1984  is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the tightly-knit group of artists, now collectively known as the 'pictures' generation, whose work formed what may be considered the last definitive movement of the 20th Century. Following up on Art in America's April issue, which revisited that decade from several critical perspectives, independent curator and critic Jess Wilcox spoke with the exhibition's curator, Douglas Eklund:

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