Larry Bell作品的「真正對應」「坐在公園長椅上看著手機的人們」。最新iPhone搭載的作業系統讓它們比以往任何時候都更加“玻璃化”，也更具貝爾風格。

 拉里貝爾：公園即興表演

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Larry Bell in Madison Square Park with his piece “Frankly Purple,” 2022.

“Fourth of July in Venice Fog,” 2018, true sea salt, lapis, red poppy and white glass.

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“Red Eyes,” 2025, above and at right, is made of two C’s of red glass that interlock, like hands clutching each other.

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斯利夫金認為，貝爾的最新作品或許也需要放在它們所處的時代——我們這個時代——的背景下去理解。這個時代充斥著“體驗經濟”，智慧型手機的光滑表面無休止地展現著瞬息萬變的世界。斯利夫金說，如今在麥迪遜廣場公園，貝爾作品的「真正對應」或許不再是戰爭中誘人的科技，而是「坐在公園長椅上看著手機的人們」。最新iPhone搭載的作業系統讓它們比以往任何時候都更加“玻璃化”，也更具貝爾風格。

貝爾一如既往地拒絕評論其藝術的意義。 “所見即所得”，這幾乎是他所能給出的最終答案。他只會說，他仍然對玻璃——六十多年來他創作的「熔沙」——充滿熱情。 “牌已經擺在桌面上，我只能按照自己手中的牌來打。”

Slifkin feels that Bell’s latest pieces may likewise need to be understood in light of their era — our era — with its “experience economy” and sleek smartphone surfaces that bring endless flashes of the passing world. Today, in Madison Square Park, Slifkin said, the “real analog” for Bell’s pieces might no longer be the seductive technology of war, but “the people sitting on benches in the park looking at their phones.” The very latest iPhones run an operating system that makes them more “glassy” than ever before, and more Bell-ish.

As always, Bell resists weighing in on his art’s meaning. “Whatever you see is what it is,” is about as final a word as he’s willing to offer. All he will say is that he still has a lot of passion for the glass — the “melted sand” his art has been made from for more than six decades. “The cards are on the table, and I’m playing the hand I was dealt.”

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Larry Bell: Improvisations in the Park

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