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Sculpture in the City 2019
London
Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme set amongst iconic architectural landmarks, opened ...
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on News 18/09/2019
Three rendez-vous with Sir Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley Royal Academy of Arts, Main Galleries (London, United Kingdom) 21 September – 3 December 2019 In …
More News 01/09/2019Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx at the New York Botanical Garden
An iconic figure, not only for art composed of living flora resulting in garden landscapes of extraordinary beauty, …
More News 02/08/2019Mark Manders : Tilted Head
The Dutch artist Mark Manders, just over fifty, is offering a monumental head directly north of the small …
More News 29/07/2019Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Momumentales
at City Hall Park (New York)
Carmen Herrera is now 104 years old. She is receiving, at long last, the attention she deserves. Originally …
More News 26/06/2019Concert pour une nouvelle Forêt
Guillaume Barth belongs to those artists who like to tell stories, tales that gain meaning through time, that …
More What’son News 24/06/2019
David Smith: Sculpture 1932-1965 at YSP
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents a major exhibition of over 40 works by the pioneering and highly …
More What’son News 19/06/2019
The Roof Garden Commission:
Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot
Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade has been selected to create a site-specific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. …
More What’son News 08/06/2019
Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space
Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space transforms Socrates Sculpture Park into a gateway to the universe, presenting artworks …
More What’son News 28/05/2019
Louise Bourgeois in the Rijksmuseum Gardens
It is rare that an artist’s oeuvre so closely reflects his or her life that it seems to …
More News 24/04/2019Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center
Curator Brett Littman (Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York) …
More What’son News 18/04/2019
Now, She
Two Sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has installed two monumental sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard. Bronze Bowl with Lace (2013–14, cast …
More What’son News 18/04/2019
Ursula von Rydingsvard:
The Contour of Feeling
This landmark exhibition of monumental sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard (b. 1942, Deensen, Germany) illuminates the process by which the …
More What’son News 20/03/2019
Phyllida Barlow, Cul-de-sac
From February 23 to June 23, 2019, British artist Phyllida Barlow will present a series of new works …
More News 27/02/2019Max Ernst on the rooftop of the Kasmin Gallery (New York)
On October 10th, Paul Kasmin Gallery (509 W 27th Street, New York) inaugurated a new exhibition space on …
More News 05/02/2019“…to imagine, to revive and make visible this human connection with the Universe”
Michelle Stuart, a pioneer woman artist using materials derived from nature since the late 1960s, works on a …
More News 25/01/2019Jaume Plensa, sculptor of the human
The MACBA (Barcelona) and the Palacio de Cristal (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid) start 2019 by showcasing …
More News 02/01/2019Anish Kapoor at Serralves Park
Some artworks were not made for human understanding. Humans have their very own, unique relationship with time, which …
More News 20/12/2018Katinka Bock at the IAC of Villeurbanne
After the MUDAM in Luxembourg and the Kunst Museum Winterthur in Switzerland, Katinka Bock moves to Villeurbanne at …
More News 13/12/2018December 2018 ‘s Picks
Bruno Peinado : From Paris with love, a code and a body for a new form of metaphysics Porte …
More News 01/12/2018Bernar Venet, Une rétrospective 2019-1959 at the MAC Lyon
01The retrospective offered by the Contemporary Art Museum of Lyon very comprehensively retraces Bernar Venet’s artistic research, starting …
More News 19/11/2018November’s Picks
Kasmin Gallery: a rooftop sculpture garden Chelsea District, New York, United States New York’s Kasmin Gallery inaugurated in October …
More News 07/10/2018October’s Picks
Franz West – Outdoor sculptures Marais district, Paris (France) Through December 10th, 2018 The fantastic retrospective on Austrian …
More News 07/10/2018La Littorale, Contemporary Art Biennial in Anglet
The 7th edition of the International Contemporary Art Biennial Anglet – Côte Basque, La Littorale, is held in …
More News 16/09/2018September’s Picks
Sculpture in the City London (United Kingdom) Through April 2019 Every year since 2018, monumental sculptures are displayed …
More News 02/08/2018August’s Picks
Chillida in the Rijksmuseum Gardens Rijksmuseum Gardens, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Until September 23rd, 2018 Guest curator: Alfred Pacquement …
More News 22/07/2018Indicators: Artists on Climate Change
at Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center, the 500-acre sculpture garden a bit more than an hour north of New York …
More News 02/07/2018July’s Picks
Fondation Carmignac Porquerolles (France) In 2018, the site in Porquerolles will be open to the public from June …
More News 02/05/2018May’s Picks
SUMMER I Chiharu Shiota, Katarina Löfström & Poul Gernes Wanås Konst, Knislinge (Sweden) May 6th to November 4th, …
More News 16/04/2018La noche que lo hace visible.
Rachel Labastie and Nicolas Delprat
Rachel Labastie and Nicolas Delprat have crossed the border to work in a small abandoned village of Navarre …
More News 01/04/2018April’s Picks
Re-naissance, ici et maintenant! Hans-Walter Müller Le Cyclop by Jean Tinguely, Milly-la-forêt (France) Inauguration Saturday April 7th at 8:30pm …
More News 06/03/2018Leaning into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy: Interview with Filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer
As Leaning into the Wind, Thomas Riedelsheimer’s second movie on Andy Goldsworthy’s work, is being released, Sculpture Nature has …
More News 01/03/2018March’s Picks
Diversifolia Nancy Rubins Gagosian Gallery, London (England) Until April 14th, 2018 Nancy Rubins sculptures cannot go unnoticed. Not …
More News 26/02/2018The Harbour Arts Sculpture Park
In February 2018, the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park was inaugurated along the waterfront in Central Hong Kong. This …
More News 01/02/2018February’s Picks
untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness) Rirkrit Tiravanija National Gallery Singapore — Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden …
More News 10/01/2018January’s Picks
Dans la forêt Grand M Media Center, Toulouse, France Opening January 11th, 2018 Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, France) is …
More News 05/12/2017December’s picks
Sculpture Nature’s December selection of exhibitions, outings and news. Subarnarekha (La ligne d’or) Hemali Bhuta CIAP Centre International …
More News 07/11/2017Ai Weiwei:
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Public art’s greatest strength—its accessibility—is also its largest weakness. We are living in a time when contemporary art …
More News 05/11/2017November’s picks
Voyage d’hiver Château de Versailles (France) Until January 7, 2018 Commission: Jean de Loisy, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Yoann Gourmel …
More News 23/10/2017FIAC Hors les murs 2017
The annual event Hors les murs programmed by the FIAC (Foire internationale d’art contemporain de Paris – Paris …
More News 10/10/2017October’s picks
Colloque : L’art dans l’espace rural Centre international d’Art et du Paysage (Île de Vassivière, France) October 13th- 15th, 2017 …
More News 19/09/2017September’s Picks
Ici Jean-Pierre Raynaud MAMO Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France Until October 1st, 2017 A 50-feet-high monumental …
More News 23/08/2017Adrián Villar Rojas on the roof of the MET
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has invited young Argentinean artist Adrián Villar Rojas (1980, Rosario, Argentina) …
More News 03/08/2017Breaking Through the Canon, Breaking Through the Gallery Wall
On March 13th, 2017 the New York Times announced that Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was named an official …
More News 25/07/2017La Petite Littorale #1
La Petite Littorale will take place at the Parc écologique Izadia in Anglet (on the Basque country coast) …
More News 20/07/2017Anish Kapoor at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Born in Bombay in 1954, Anish Kapoor now lives and works in London. He is particularly well known …
More News 15/07/2017Frieze Sculpture Park 2017
For the first time, this year Frieze Sculpture Park is open all summer with 23 works scattered throughout …
More News 30/06/2017Fantasmagorie — Edith Derdyk
During three weeks we followed the making of the installation Fantasmagorie (2017) by Brasilian artist Edith Derdyk, in …
More News 05/05/2017La Conque in Nanterre : nouvelle adresse by Claude Rutault
Sandrine Moreau, visual arts manager of the City of Nanterre, presents nouvelle adresse, a work of art by Claude Rutault …
More News 25/04/2017Interview with Manon Thirriot
Manon Thirriot just spent a month at the NEKaTOENEa creation residency, at the heart of the Abbadia estate …
More News 11/04/2017Encounters in Hong Kong — Art Basel 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters is an exhibition of monumental works displayed throughout the unconventional context of a …
More News 29/03/2017Tony Cragg: A Rare Category of Objects at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
This year, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates its fortieth anniversary with an exhibition of works by Tony Cragg, …
More News 12/03/2017Marisa Merz:
The Sky Is a Great Place
at MET Breuer
Now 86 years old, Marisa Merz is the only woman participant in the outstanding art movement called Arte …
More News 14/02/2017The Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition
‘Utter rubbish’ said a man who sidled up to me in the foyer of the National Gallery at …
More News 07/02/2017Rivage, Rivages. The catalogue of La Littorale’s 6th edition.
La Littorale is an international contemporary art biennale held in the city of Anglet on the Côte Basque. …
More News 01/02/2017Sea Music: the restoration of the sculpture can start.
The Poole Museum (United-Kingdom) just announced, with a lot of enthusiasm, that they successfully obtained their Stage 2 Heritage …
More News 16/01/2017Géométrie Habitée — Interview with Anabelle Soriano
Annabelle Soriano’s exhibition, currently on view at the Georges-Pompidou gallery and outside the Quintaou Theater in Anglet, is …
More News 12/01/2017City Sculpture Projects 1972
If you have the pleasure of strolling the streets of the historical center of Leeds, in the United …
More News 21/12/2016Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Since December 10th, a gigantic yellow pumpkin with black polka dots has sprouted at the Hirshhorn Museum and …
More News 06/12/2016A present for everyone — Christmas 2016
Emmanuel Berry, Rodin, published by Editions Xavier Barral, 120 pages, 49 black and white photographs, bilingual French-English, 2016. …
More News 08/11/2016Movement as the Essence of Life. Jean Tinguely in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Say Jean Tinguely and people start smiling. Everybody knows his humourous moving machines of old bicycle wheels, rusted …
More News 04/11/2016Julie Chaffort, Somnambules at the Bullukian Foundation in Lyon
Until the end of December, Julie Chaffort, who was awarded the third Bullukian Prize, offers an unusual experience …
More News 02/11/2016Creation: Margaux Othats Artist-in-Residence at La Petite Escalère
Margaux Othats has been selected for LPE’s fall 2016 residency for francophone authors-illustrators. The selection committee included Marion Jablonski, Director – Albin …
More News 24/10/2016PERCEPTIONS #3 – Arts and Science at the Abbadia Castle
Space takes the form of how I see things. — Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist Until November 2nd, 2016, the …
More News 22/10/2016FIAC Hors les murs 2016
Since 1974 and every year at the end of October, the Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) hosts art …
More News 19/09/2016Sculpture Network 14th International Forum
This year, the 14th International Forum organized by Sculpture Network will take place from September 29th to October …
More News 23/08/2016Olafur Eliasson, Versailles 2016
Discover the three outdoor installations by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles. …
More News 11/08/2016LANDMARK at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Socrates Sculpture Park is turning 30 years old this year. Once an industrial landfill, the park is located …
More News 26/07/2016Cristina Iglesias at the Grenoble Museum
On a hot summer day, I cross the threshold of the Museum of Grenoble, seeking out shade and …
More News 22/07/2016Arnaga 2016 Contemporary Art: Interview with Jean-François Larralde
Since June 17 and until October 16, 2016, Villa Arnaga, Edmond Rostand’s house in the Basque country, …
More News 15/07/2016Virginia Overton presents Sculpture Gardens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art has commissioned artist Virginia Overton (1971, Nashville, Tennessee) to create an in …
More News 06/07/2016Postcard from Chaumont-sur-Loire
The Loire River gently flows, down on its way to the estuary: a calm, smooth movement, only fragmented …
More News 23/06/2016SFMOMA Reopens With Several Gardens, Terraces, and Galleries for Sculpture
The first piece of work installed in anticipation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s $610 million …
More News 12/06/2016Arte Sella, Città delle idee. Interview with Filmmaker Luca Bergamaschi
Arte Sella sculpture park was created in the Spring of 1986 as a civil response to the Chernobyl …
More News 05/06/2016Yayoi Kusama Takes Over the Glass House
In 1966, for the 33rd Venice Biennale, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama decided to install hundreds of metallic spheres …
More News 28/05/2016Bernar Venet’s Sculptures in Public Spaces in Two Cities: Budapest and New York
Do cities have their own psyche? In a Jungian sense, they do. It is an opaque, ever pulsating …
More News 25/05/2016Public Art in New York, Summer 2016 (2/2)
Here is the second part of our stroll around New York to let you discover public art on …
More News 17/05/2016Martin Puryear’s Big Bling at the Madison Square Park, New York
Opening on May 16, the Madison Square Park will present its thirty-third public art exhibition that will be …
More News 10/05/2016Public Art in New York, Summer 2016 (1/2)
10New York is a vibrant city in terms of outdoor activities, particularly when the first nice days of …
More News 25/04/2016La mémoire des sols at Abbadia
Until June 26, 2016, La Maison de la corniche Asportotsttipi, at Hendaye’s Abaddia estate, is hosting the exhibition …
More News 21/04/2016Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. Interview with the filmmaker James Crump
Aniko Erdosi: In January you released your second documentary film “Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art.” When I …
More News 21/04/20161976-2016: 40th Anniversary of Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
It’s in 1976, a year after Barbara Hepworth’s death, that the “Trewyn Studio”, located in Saint Ives in …
More News 12/04/2016Les carnets du paysage, varia
“Let’s listen to the world as to a vast musical piece – a piece of which we are …
More News 08/04/2016The Crowdfunding Trend
The Chinati Foundation, based in Marfa in the Texas desert, has announced last week that it had successfully …
More News 22/03/2016Empty Lot by Abraham Cruzvillegas
For the past six months, the Turbine Hall of the Tate Gallery (London) has been hosting Empty Lot, …
More News 16/03/2016Picasso.Sculptures
For Picasso, the dialogue between painting and sculpture started when he was 10, while he was first studying …
More News 11/03/2016Calme-toi, Lison by Jean Frémon
Louise Bourgeois, a free woman. Louise, Louise Bourgeois, the woman who creates spiders, and so …
More News 10/03/2016CERAMIX
Art and ceramics From Rodin to Shütte Starting Wednesday March 9th, the exhibition CERAMIX opens for three months …
More News 25/02/2016ScNa’s Peek at the Web
Each month, we are inviting you to browse the web and discover our selection of exhibits, places, personalities, …
More News 03/11/2015Dan Graham, guest of honor in France
Currently, American artist Dan Graham is undeniably the most prominent foreign artist in France. No less than three …
More News 03/11/2015ScNa’s peek at the web
Each month, we are inviting you to browse the web and discover our selection of exhibits, places, personalities, projects …
More News 19/10/2015A preview of FIAC 2015 Hors les Murs
Following the footsteps of the Unlimited program of the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, the FIAC has stretched …
More News 01/10/2015ScNa’s peek at the web
Each month, we are inviting you to browse the web and discover our selection of exhibits, places, personalities, …
More News 13/09/2015Lynda Benglis at Storm King
Active for more than half a century, Storm King functions as a major center for contemporary sculpture in …
More News 13/07/2015Pierre Huyghe explores time from the MET Roof Garden
French artist Pierre Huyghe installation includes ancient living species and Palaeolithic rocks in an aquarium with changing walls. The …
More News 08/07/2015Teresita Fernandez’s Fata Morgana at the Madison Square Park
Since 2004, the Madison Square Park Conservancy has invited well-known public artists and sculptors—Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, and …
More News 17/06/2015Agnes Denes at Socrates Sculpture Park
Agnes Denes, a major public art, land artist now in her eighties, still living downtown in New York …
More News 09/06/2015Editor’s picks at 2015 Frieze New York
For the fourth year in a row the Frieze Art Fair took place on Randall’s Island, a 35 …
More News 18/05/2015Please Touch the Art Come and play with Jeppe Hein !
The Danish artist invites you to participate in all his Brooklyn Park installations. Appearing Rooms creates ephemeral …
More News 10/04/2015Dan Graham and Günther Vogt atop the MET in New York
Every summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commissions an outdoor installation to be displayed on the …
More News 14/01/2015Walks of life, Tony Cragg in New York
This winter, Madison Square Park Art is displaying three monumental sculptures by English artist Tony Cragg. Mixed Feelings, …
More News 04/01/2015De la nature à l’œuvre by Virginie Luc
Through the works of twenty one artists, this book by Virginie Luc explores the poetic link between nature, …
More News 30/12/2014La forêt d’art contemporain
Since 2011, fifteen works of art have been installed on the grounds of the regional natural park of …
More News 26/12/2014You Call That Art? A book-object for young sculptors
Sculpture is also for children. You Call That Art? is an unusual and playful way to introduce sculpture …
More News 15/12/2014John Gerrard installs a solar power plant in Manhattan
It is an extremely sophisticated and monumental LED wall. Thanks to computer simulation, Irish artist John Gerrard virtually …
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