Monolith mania comes to Chelsea
Michael Manfredi takes a photo of Ptolemys Wedge II by Beverly Pepper at the exhibition Between the Earth and Sky" at the Kasmin Gallery, New York, Jan. 23, 2021. The handsome and inordinately timely group show brings together 22 works, some recent, some quite old, all of them billed as monolithic sculptures. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Deborah Solomon
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- I dont blame you if you never want to hear the word monolith again. It was certainly one of the most misused terms of 2020. It officially means one stone (mono for one and lith for stone or carving, from the Greek word lithos) and was pressed into overtime last fall when social media was inundated by reports of mystery monoliths.