By Deborah Solomon These days, as I stand at the kitchen sink, washing my hands and wondering why 20 seconds never seemed so long before, I find myself thinking of Robert Gober. So much of our ...

A siegelike mindset — unspeakably isolated, sleepwalking, wounded, monomaniacally self-enclosed, but finally atoning — inhabits Robert Gober’s exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery.

To those unforgettable visuals — executed by (respectively) René Magritte, Philip Guston, and David Lynch — it’s possible to add another 20th-century icon of angsty unease: Robert Gober’s ...

Giving Robert Gober the run of the Menil Collection's storerooms, with the directions to create a show, was risky; it's like letting a kid loose in a candy store. There are just too many yummy ...

Sculptor, photographer, and master of artistic staging, rival to Auguste Rodin and a role model for numerous artists: around 1900, Medardo Rosso (1858 in Turin, Italy 1928 in Milan, Italy) ...

Rarely do institutional exhibitions elicit the depth of grief and tenderness articulated by “Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor.” The 60-year-old artist’s first American retrospective ...

Compared to good art, “great art is much harder to talk about,” the sculptor Charles Ray has said, speaking of the phantasmagoric work of Robert Gober, the subject of a 40-year retrospective ...

The Hammer Museum in Westwood will honor artist Robert Gober and playwright Tony Kushner at its 11th annual gala, scheduled to take place Oct. 5. Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, are co ...

By C. Molly Smith Tony Kushner Headshot - P 2012 Robert Gober and Tony Kushner will be honored Oct. 5 at the Hammer Museum’s 11th annual Gala in the Garden, which raises money for the museum’s ...