Richard Serra

I have been enjoying the Alan Yentob series Imagine (since I discovered it a few weeks ago). This week's offering was about American artist Richard Serra who is renown for his massive steel sculptures. I enjoyed how he described his childhood and seemed to imply that because a primary school teacher displayed lots of his pictures around the classroom and encouraged his mother that he was talented and to make sure she took him to lots of museums, that that made him become an artist. It would be great to base an educational establishment on that kind of principle. Anyway, in the meatime this is an example of Serra's work and you can see more in London's Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross until 20th December.