Richard Serra

born 1938

Richard Serra, ‘Trip Hammer’ 1988
Trip Hammer 1988
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Biography

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American artist, widely known for his very large, self-supporting minimalist sculptures, often of weathered sheet steel.

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  • Lost Art: Richard Serra - showing length of Tilted Arc

    Essay

    Lost Art: Richard Serra

    Jennifer Mundy

    The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared. …

  • Bernard Cohen, ‘Floris’ 1964

    Art Term

    Process art

    The term process art refers to where the process of its making art is not hidden but remains a prominent …

  • Front cover of Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972

    Tate Papers

    Curating by Numbers: Landmark Exhibitions Issue

    Lucy R. Lippard

    This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ordered …

  • Student exchange 2008: drawing at Palmyra

    Tate Papers

    Border Crossing

    Felicity Allen

    Nahnou-Together is a partnership programme involving art museums and an informal art school, in Amman, Damascus and London. This paper …

  • Juan Munoz Performing a piece at PS One New York 1982 one

    Tate Etc

    The restless storyteller: Juan Muñoz

    James Lingwood

    He was said to be one of the ‘most ingenious artists of his generation’ and someone who had ‘an infectious …

  • Anthony McCall, ‘Line Describing a Cone’ 1973

    Tate Papers

    Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone

    Mark Godfrey and Anthony McCall

    Mark Godfrey and Anthony McCall, Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone; Tate Papers no.8
  • Robert Smithson Mirror and Crushed Shells 1969

    Tate Papers

    Authority and Ethics

    Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

    Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Authority and Ethics; Tate Papers no.8
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    Tate Papers

    Richard Serra: A Case Study

    Lynne Cooke

    Lynne Cooke, Richard Serra: A Case Study - relating to replication; Tate Papers no.8
  • Anthony McCall, ‘Line Describing a Cone’ 1973

    Tate Papers

    Tate Papers no.8: Autumn 2007

    The Autumn 2007 issue of Tate Papers, edited with the assistance of Bryony Bery, is given over to the …

  • Josef Albers and Eva Hesse, Yale University, c.1958

    Tate Papers

    Josef Albers, Eva Hesse, and the Imperative of Teaching

    Jeffrey Saletnik

    This paper examines affinities between the Bauhaus-indebted instructional methods and practices of Josef Albers and the sculpture of Eva Hesse, …

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