"The Artists Who Wield Ideas Like Burning Torches"

Contemporary culture is at its best when it is fresh and stuffed with wide-ranging and original ideas. Many of the most interesting contributors to the current arts have a fierce facility with extreme variety. While many of us get trapped in whirlpools where our bright ideas get replayed until they grow dull, great artists move from idea to idea, their notions adjusting in interesting ways at each pivot point. Sometimes the changes they push are vertical in that the artist dives deeper and deeper into a concept, unveiling ever-richer interpretations and aesthetics or carrying hot ideas across boundaries into new mediums. Just as valuable are the artists who move laterally, with each project totally different from the previous in both conceptual point and material production. Two artists whose finest works are currently touring the world strike me for their ability to constantly refine and reinvent their vision.