The rusty steel in Richard Serra’s towering sculptures undoubtedly contains melted-down steam engines, ocean liners, and other scrap perpetually recycled since the days of Blake’s “dark Satanic mills.

Artist Richard Serra is famous for his gigantic steel sculptures. What he is less known for are his drawings, now the subject of a fascinating exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

"Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective," Apr. 13-Aug. 28, 2011, turns the Metropolitan Museum of Art into a living, breathing space for contemporary art, for the first time. It's a momentous event, ...

This new show looks at the genesis stages of Serra's massive steel sculptures. Pretty cool. Institutionalized Abstract Art, 1976/2011 Paintstick drawn on the wall of the Art Institute of Chicago on ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its new exhibit "Richard Serra: Drawings," is nominally showcasing another side to the artist who is primarily known for his large-scale steel sculptures. But ...

Tilted Arc, a 12-foot-high, curving, inclined wall of rusting steel by famed American sculptor Richard Serra, awaits removal, March 11, 1989. [Photo: AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File] His death was ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Richard Serra died last Tuesday. In ...