About Carol Bove

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    The following review was published in The New York Times, November 4, 2016

    "Sculpture’s Woman of Steel, Carol Bove"
    by Randy Kennedy

    A visit to the sculptor Carol Bove’s studio in a former brick factory near the Brooklyn waterfront does not exactly make Rimbaud’s advice for the true artist — to engage in a “boundless and systematized disorganization of all the senses” — leap to mind. A huge manufacturing floor dominated by an overhead gantry that looks as if it could hoist a subway car, the place instead evokes distinctly unpoetic phrases like “productivity gains” and “customer fulfillment strategies.”

    But Ms. Bove, 45, whose pieces have become widely celebrated in recent years, collected by the Museum of Mode...

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