Visitors look at the artwork "The Matter of Time" by US artist Richard Serra during the presentation of the "25 Years of the Museum Collection" exhibition on the 25th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on Oct. 18, 2022.
Artist Richard Serra, who died Tuesday at 85 at his home on Long Island, was known for his monumental metal sculptures.
"I don't think there are any other artists who worked with the level of ambition, exactness and vision to create something on such a magnificent scale that changes human experience," said Sarah Roberts, head of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Oliver Laban-Mattei / AFP via Getty Images
/
AFP via Getty Images
US sculptor Richard Serra poses beside one of his five massive steel sculptures or walls of steel, each piece weighing 75 tonnes, on May 04, 2008 in Paris, two day before the opening of his exhibition within the framework of Monumenta exhibition 2008 in the Grand Palais.
Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco. The son of a shipyard pipe-fitter, he grew up watching vast steel tankers come and go. As a young man he worked in local steel mills to pay for college in California, and went on to study fine art at Yale. He moved to New York in the mid-1960s, where he began making art from industrial materials, especially metal. "I started as a kid in the steel mills," the artist told NPR in 1986. "And in some sense I've never left."
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
Ammar Abd Rabbo / Qatar Museums/AFP via Getty Imag
/
Qatar Museums/AFP via Getty Imag
This picture taken on Nov. 19, 2021 shows the "East-West/West-East" sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, in Qatar's Brouq nature reserve, one hour drive west of the capital. The work is composed of four steel plates, each over fourteen metres in height, in the middle of the desert.
Johannes Schmitt-Tegge / picture alliance via Getty Image
/
picture alliance via Getty Image
May 8, 2018 the Sculpture "Contour" by the artist Richard Serra in the exterior of the Glenstone Museum.
Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images
/
Getty Images
Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art view Richard Serra"u2019s 320-ton sculpture called Equal in New York City on March 7, 2020. The sculpture is composed of four pairs of forged steel blocks, stacked and arranged in a square.
Jacques Brinon / AP
/
AP
American sculptor Richard Serra's "Slat", a 1984 steel sculpture, is seen after its reinstallation in La Defense, west of Paris, Monday, Dec. 15, 2008.
Raymond Boyd / Getty Images
/
Getty Images
Richard Serra's 'Twain' sculpture stands in Serra Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri on Aug. 10, 2017.
Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images
/
AFP via Getty Images
Members of the press walk through the sculpture titled "Intersection II" by Richard Serra during the press preview May 29, 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art, "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years".
Nick de la Torre / Houston Chronicle via Getty Imag
/
Houston Chronicle via Getty Imag
Richard Serra stands by his latest work at the Menil Collection, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Houston. The art show, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, is the Menil Collection's landmark exhibit.
Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk.
The independent journalism and non-commercial programming you rely on every day is in danger.
If you’re reading this, you believe in trusted journalism and in learning without paywalls. You value access to educational content kids love and enriching cultural programming.
Now all of that is at risk.
Federal funding for public media is under threat and if it goes, the impact to our communities will be devastating.
Together, we can defend it. It’s time to protect what matters.
Your voice has protected public media before. Now, it’s needed again. Learn how you can protect the news and programming you depend on.
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
SOMOS CONNECTICUT es una iniciativa de Connecticut Public, la emisora local de NPR y PBS del estado, que busca elevar nuestras historias latinas y expandir programación que alza y informa nuestras comunidades latinas locales. Visita CTPublic.org/latino para más reportajes y recursos. Para noticias, suscríbase a nuestro boletín informativo en ctpublic.org/newsletters.
The independent journalism and non-commercial programming you rely on every day is in danger.
If you’re reading this, you believe in trusted journalism and in learning without paywalls. You value access to educational content kids love and enriching cultural programming.
Now all of that is at risk.
Federal funding for public media is under threat and if it goes, the impact to our communities will be devastating.
Together, we can defend it. It’s time to protect what matters.
Your voice has protected public media before. Now, it’s needed again. Learn how you can protect the news and programming you depend on.
Presidenti Trump did not reveal the trading partner, saying only that it was "A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY" and that representatives would join him at 10 a.m. ET in the Oval Office.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the department will consider bringing back some employees who took the government's deferred resignation offer.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat withdrew her nomination for Surgeon General after questions about her credentials. Dr. Casey Means has a medical degree from Stanford and a best-selling book on metabolic health.
