![Richard Serra, East-West/West-East, Image via Qatar Museum Authority](https://codylee.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Richard-Serra-East-West-West-East-1-1024x576.jpg)
This spring, coinciding with his first major exhibition in the Middle East, American sculptor Richard Serra launched a public art commission in Qatar entitled East-West/West-East. Serra’s large-scale assemblies of sheet metal are famously minimal and massive, and this site-specific work in Qatar is absolutely monolithic.