A lot of noise is being made with Richard Serra set to open his annual solo show called Monumenta in the echoing Grand Palais. "The 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel has restored one of his earlier works to its proper place in the garden of the Tuileries; and he has been made a commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Academy a two-rank leap from his previous knighthood, the starter kind usually given to singers like Kylie Minogue, who recently received hers.
Read more of the fascinating article over at NY Times…
