The survey of Minimalism currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art partly chronicles the disappearance of pedestals from modern sculpture in the 1960s, when art shook off its privileged trappings ...

the other. Before I get to them, though, perhaps a little history might be in order. Falling into the category of "everything old is new again," the story behind the empty pedestals concerns budget.

Jeffrey Gibson isn’t from Portland. He lives in New York, but when Kathleen Ash-Milby, the Portland Art Museum’s curator of Native American art, was looking for an artist to create a site-responsive ...