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♢ EDITORIAL by Sal McIntyre, New York ♢

Being born to a father who worked in steel mills and as a pipe-fitter in a San Francisco shipyard sheds much light on the nature of the work of Richard Serra, the most famous living sculptor in America. Says Serra of that influence, “All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory which has become a recurring dream.” His monumental scale abstract sculptures, often public installations, are indeed dreamlike — their austerity nearly violently throwing the observer into a labyrinth of existential questions and intangible …