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We remember Richard Serra, the American artist whose vast sculptures transformed landscapes

Sculptor Richard Serra, whose massive rusted-steel works transformed physical and psychological space, died on March 26 at his home in Orient, New York, of pneumonia. He was eighty-five.

Richard Serra, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, was known for monumental sculptures that balance enormous plates of steel.

In the last week or so Cork City Council’s Arts Office has been drawing attention to a series of public sculptures around the city, specifically on Cork’s central island. The project—Island City, Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail— has been garnering a lot of debate

While the artist and pioneering ambient composer Hiroshi Yoshimura was recording his debut album, in 1982, he visited the Hara Museum of Contempora