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Additional Art Writings by Sidney Lawrence

Books & Catalogs

Music in Stone: Great Sculpture Gardens of the World, with George Foy, Scala Books (Train/Branca), 1984. 207-page coffee-table classic.  

Roger Brown.  A full treatment on the occasion of the Chicago Imagist’s first East Coast retrospective at the Hirshhorn.  Book co-published with George Braziller, New York, 1988. 

Hirshhorn Works 89.  Book documenting four site-specific pieces. Contributor of curator’s essay on Houston Conwill’s “Markings on the Sand.” Essays on other pieces are by Ned Rifkin and Phyllis Rosenzweig. 

Roger Brown: Southern Exposure. University of Alabama Press, 2007. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art at Auburn University. (author-curator)

Artist appreciation, one of four, in the catalog accompanying  Remembering Marc and Komei, a 94-work tribute exhibition at the American University Museum, Washington, DC.

"Melissa Ichiuji’s Body Heat,” main essay (also in German) for artist catalog, Irvine Contemporary, 2011.

Scholarly Articles 

American Art (spring 1997) “Commentary; The Color of Art,” a white curator’s account of organizing an exhibition of works by a black artist (Alison Saar).  

Art in America (Feb. 1984), “Clean Machines at the Modern” about MOMA’ s seminal design exhibition of 1934, “Machine Art”

Newspapers & Magazines​

Washington Post, review of “The True Artist….”,  the Kreeger Museum’s northern California show on tour from the Di Rosa Preserve Collection in Napa (May 30  2004) and an article on the popularity of the Hirshhorn’s sculpture by Ron Mueck, “Big Man” (July 20, 2003) 

Smithsonian Magazine, “Around the Mall” commentaries on a Whistler show at the Freer Gallery (Jan. 2004) and a Sol Le Witt wall drawing at the Hirshhorn (Mar. 2004)

Sculpture magazine.  Introductions to sculpture park and garden directories of May/June 1987 & January 1996.  

Garden Design, reports on site-specific sculpture gardens at Villa Celle, Italy 

(Sept/Oct 1993) and Oliver Ranch, northern California (Dec. 1991), plus a review of a Metropolitan Museum book about garden-related art (autumn 1987). 

Landscape Architecture, report on a new Henry Moore sculpture garden in Kansas City (April 1989) and a review of the Noguchi Garden Museum catalog (July 1988). 


Hirshhorn exhibitions organized by Sidney Lawrence