Phyllida Barlow’s boundary-crossing, endlessly imaginative work

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Phyllida Barlow’s boundary-crossing, endlessly imaginative work

Phyllida Barlow died suddenly in 2023, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy as artist and teacher. She was generous and civilized in person, but her work was as bold as brass. When I was fortunate enough to curate a show of nine women sculptors, hers was the largest, most unignorable installation of the lot. Actually it was a pair of installations made for one another: “untitled: megaphone” and “untitled: stackedchairs” (both 2014), consisting…