DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces The 2012 deCordova Biennial

LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces The 2012 deCordova Biennial and exhibition-related programs and performances this winter. The exhibition, on view January 22 through April 22, 2012, follows The 2010 deCordova Biennial, the first of deCordova’s revamped regional showcase, for which Curator Dina Deitsch won critical acclaim for her fresh curatorial approach. DeCordova formerly presented the twenty-year deCordova Annual exhibition program designed to feature art from across New England. The 2012 deCordova Biennial is the largest and most ambitious to [...]

Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes at the Walters

BALTIMORE, MD.- “Please DO NOT touch” is the message that we are all used to seeing on signs near works of art in most museums. This is necessary to preserve the art, but we all want to touch! This focus show invites you to touch…and hold, and stroke and to think about why and how physical contact with works of art can be so satisfying. As a continuation of the Walters’ partnership with The Johns Hopkins University Brain Science Institute, this installation [...]

Valencian Institute of Modern Art opens exhibition of the sculpture of Arturo Berned

VALENCIA.- The show starts with four large works installed outside the museum as a prologue to the exhibition features 60 works selected for the occasion.As part of the exhibition space has been defined as ‘studio area’, which has enabled the study itself to appreciate the artist and the current evolution of his creative activity with the exhibition of the latest pieces made to be incorporated in this space , as its completion, in lieu of those discussed above. Accompanying the sculptures, [...]

Chris Burden’s new work: art imitating the future

LOS ANGELES (AP).- Chris Burden’s latest kinetic sculpture, “Metropolis II,” does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years. It will be a time, Burden forecasts, when cars will race across Los Angeles’ no-longer-gridlocked freeways and streets, past a skyline of towering buildings and single-family homes, at speeds of 240 miles per hour or more. That’s just what the tiny [...]

Will Kurtz’s Extra F***ing Ordinary opens at the Mike Weiss Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Extra Fucking Ordinary, Will Kurtz’s debut exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects which depict the characters captured by Kurtz’s iPhone camera lens. Utilizing the observing eye of a curious urban voyeur, Kurtz spends large portions of his days combing the streets of New York for his subjects, which are later transformed into sincere and amusing [...]

Exhibition of marble sculpture from 350 B.C. to last week at Sperone Westwater in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of white marble sculptures dating from 350 B.C. to the present day. This survey includes Greek and Roman antiquities, Neoclassical sculptures, and works by modern and contemporary European and American artists. Marble is one of the oldest and most fundamental materials of sculpture with wide-ranging use in the fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture. Among the works from Greek and Roman antiquity in Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week is an Ionian [...]

LACMA presents Chris Burden’s kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Created by artist Chris Burden, Metropolis II (2010) is a complex, large-scale kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city. The armature of the piece is constructed of steel beams, forming an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of eighteen roadways, including a six-lane freeway, train tracks, and hundreds of buildings. 1,100 miniature toy cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour on the specially designed plastic roadways. Every hour, the equivalent of approximately [...]

“The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin returns to Stanford University after two years on loan

STANFORD, CA.- “The Thinker” returns to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University after two years on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art. Starting Jan. 25, the public can again view this iconic work by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). During his lifetime, Rodin was compared to Michelangelo and was widely recognized as the greatest artist of the era. His most famous works, “The Kiss” and “The Thinker,” are often used outside the world of fine art as symbols of [...]

Exorcising the Fear: Exhibition of British sculpture from the 50s & 60s at Pangolin in London

LONDON.- Taking the sixtieth anniversary year of the XXVI Venice Biennale of 1952 as its starting point, Exorcising the Fear will explore a pivotal point in the history of British sculpture. Returning to the essay by Herbert Read which left an indelible mark on the history of art with the phrase ‘the geometry of fear’, the exhibition aims to recapture the excitement and vitality of the moment when eight young British sculptors – Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Geoffrey Clarke, [...]

Exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Danny First at Maloney Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Maloney Fine Art presents Peaceful Solitude, an exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Danny First. This marks Danny First’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Danny First has been exploring sculpture for the past five years; first working in clay and more recently in bronze, to create whimsical busts. He has also developed a body of work utilizing reclaimed / recycled materials to create functional benches which incorporate text reflecting First’s droll sense of humor. Whether it [...]

Artists Charles Sowers transforms the facade of the Randall Museum with 500 wind-activated sculptures

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Randall Museum announce the installation of Windswept, a wind-driven kinetic façade by Charles Sowers. An artist and exhibit developer at the Exploratorium, Sowers has created thought-provoking, beautiful experiences for visitors for 15 years. Consisting of over 500 freely-rotating directional arrows, Windswept transforms a blank wall into a large-scale observational instrument that reveals the complex interactions between the wind and the environment. The artwork was funded by the Art Enrichment monies generated by [...]

Sculpture goes interactive in new Canary Wharf art exhibition

LONDON.- The art world’s latest interpretation of the global craze for touch-based technology has arrived in London, with an impressive new exhibition set to be unveiled in Canary Wharf on 9 January. ‘Marbles’, a new interactive artwork by Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde, recent winner of the prestigious Design for Asia Award, features eight spectacular glowing forms which come alive upon human touch, using sound and colour to communicate to people in the vicinity and to each other. The exhibition [...]

Barbara Sorensen’s Topographies exhibition opens at the Orlando Museum of Art

ORLANDO, FL.- The Orlando Museum of Art has expanded its permanent collection with dynamic sculptures donated by renowned artist Barbara Sorensen and her husband. The sculptures included in the donation are nine pieces from the Dwellings Series, which are currently on display at the museum’s entrance. “We are pleased to add these incredible sculptures to OMA’s permanent collection of contemporary art, ” said Hansen Mulford, curator of the OMA. “The collection depends on the generosity of donors like the Sorensen family to [...]

David Smith Cubi XXI gifted to Storm King Art Center and Whitney Museum of American Art

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y.- Storm King Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced the acquisition of Cubi XXI, a 1964 sculpture by preeminent American artist David Smith (1906–1965). A key work from the artist’s celebrated Cubi series (1961–1965), the large-scale, burnished stainless-steel sculpture is a gift to the two institutions from the Lipman Family Foundation. The late Howard Lipman, a trustee of both Storm King and the Whitney, and his wife, the late Jean Lipman (editor of Art in America [...]

Spreading the tentacles of public art: Octopus by Marialuisa Tadei comes to Thomas More Square

LONDON.- Renowned international artist, Marialuisa Tadei, is now exhibiting her landmark installation Octopus at Thomas More Square, St Katherine’s Dock. Octopus featured in Art London this year and was chosen as pick of the week in Country Life Magazine, following a very favourable reception from art critics. The work seeks to bridge the gap between the material and spiritual worlds in response to the extreme consumerism of the modern world. The installation is created entirely of hand-cut coloured-glass tiles, laid as [...]