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...Called “The Golden Tower”, this one was created by the late American artist James Lee Byars in 1990 for an exhibition at the Gropius Bau in Berlin....
...And not just a director: last year he personally curated an installation that took its inspiration from a work he owns by James Lee Byars....
...James Lee Byars: Golden Tower Campo San Vio Rising above the Grand Canal between the Accademia and the Guggenheim, Byars’ 66ft “Golden Tower” is a thing of beauty, audacity and craziness....
...Most of the Chinese pieces, exquisitely carved and lacquered, are installed in the upper floor of the bunker with contemporary works by Cristina Iglesias, Adam Fuss, James Lee Byars, Zeng Fanzhi and more...
...James Lee Byars, Michael Werner Gallery, London Minimalism meets glitz in the first UK showing of Byars’ large-scale installation “The Diamond Floor” (1995)....
...He found a patch of falling leaves outside, which he framed with four nails and a piece of string and within which James Lee Byars then did a performance....
...This assertive emptiness is “The Ghost of James Lee Byars”, made in 1969, a living artist’s impalpable monument to himself....
...The Tuileries gardens have 17 outdoor sculptures, including James Lee Byars’ impeccable golden sphere, originally conceived for Charles V’s Alhambra palace (Michael Werner)....
...Gallery space starts on the second floor, its architecture currently obscured by the inaugural exhibition, a James Lee Byars retrospective....
...Lee Byars, clad in red silk and holding a gold-coloured megaphone, standing on the roof of the Fridericianum to call a roll of German first names at Kassel’s Documenta in 1972....
...One devoted to James Lee Byars is co-curated by Peter Eleey of New York’s MoMA PS1 – where it will travel next year – and is a sign of López’s ambitions to bring genuine curatorial heft to the museum....
...… Michael Werner gallery in Mayfair, which has just inaugurated a show by James Lee Byars, is extending on to the ground floor of its Upper Brook Street premises....
...At once lush and austere, it is one of Byars’ signature pieces – the others are the red room installation “This is the Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling” and “The Perfect Death of James Lee Byars”, where...
...Take, for instance, the squad of gold-costumed figures wearing top hats, meant to evoke the mortality-obsessed conceptual artist James Lee Byars, who grew up in Detroit and died in Cairo in 1997....
...There were those, such as James Lee Byars and Ad Reinhardt, who immersed themselves in foreign cultures and whose sublime work reflected their seriousness and dedication....
...Lee Byars, whom “Chaimowicz feels empathy with”, according to the organisers....
...In July, Sharpe James, Newark’s mayor from 1986 until last year, was indicted on 33 counts of corruption....
...One work by the late performance artist and sculptor James Lee Byars is rather spooky. Behind a black curtain lies a small room inside which the ghost of the artist is reported to lurk....
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