TIME‘s just-published list of “100 People Who Shape Our World” includes a reminscence by Chuck Close on Kiki Smith. He writes:
…While many artists, especially sculptors and installation artists, are steadfast members of a “slacker” generation, Kiki, 52, embraces craft, the dreaded C word of the art world. In myriad materials such as glass, fiber and beads (some associated more with amateurs and craft-show practitioners than with professional artists), she has embraced a dizzyingly diverse vocabulary of the demoted, debased and despised–and she makes you like it…
More from TIME‘s list: Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha) on Ang Lee, Stephen Colbert (if you haven’t seen his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, you must: QT / WMP / torrent / transcript), architect Renzo Piano, and the Skype guys.
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