"Serra Smiles: The new friendliness of America's most fearsome sculptor" by Peter Schjeldahl, 2000

Richard Serra, Switch, 1999

This article is quite similar to the one summarized in the previous post.  Schjeldahl sees Richard Serra's current sculpture as a dramatic, positive departure from his older works, making installations that have a real playful quality to them.  The author seems to really like "Switch," one of Serra's most recent works, which consists of three pairs of steel walls, all of which curve towards a central point, creating a triangular interior space.  People respond to Switch's beauty, as they move in and around the work.  As Schjeldahl most articulately states, "You cannot use up 'Switch.'"  He believes Serra's work has a lot to teach public spaces where many people congregate and walk through, such as airports, malls and casinos.  Schjeldahl sees Frank Gehry, one of Serra's close friends, as a major influence in his growth as an artist from the depths of "the most menacing paladin of Minimalism."