Detecting a global trend towards the fragmentary and contingent in some of the strongest sculpture being made today, they are presenting work that reflects the extreme delicacy and fragility of life in the twenty-first century.It is an uncertain time, at best, with threats ranging from religious wars and terrorism to global warming and species extinction.

Preface by Lisa Phillips

Acknowledgments by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni

NOT ABOUT MEL GIBSON by Richard Flood

SCULPTURES by

Biographies by Sara Reisman

ASK THE DUST by Massimiliano Gionl

SCULPTURES

NNMONUMEHTAL: GOING TO PIECES IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Laura Hoptman

SCULPTURES

SCULPTURE: A MINOR PLACE by Trevor Smith

YESTERDAY'S NEWS by Benjamin Godsill

A CRITICAL GLOSSARY OF SPACE AND SCULPTURE by Eva Diaz

Notes

Contributors

Index