sculpture

Anonymous (Mexican, 19th century), Still Life, 19th century. Oil on canvas. 29 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.
TMA Adds Exceptional Works to its Renowned Holdings
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) added more than thirty outstanding and diverse works of art to its collection in June through purchase and gifts. Among the many highlights of the new acquisitions…
Larry Poons, Lee's Retreat, 1963.
Late Career Artists: Changing Course—or Not
There is much to ponder about creative shifts in late-career artmaking. It’s a subject that has always fascinated scholars and audiences in all the arts because we usually expect painters, like…
Alison Saar, detail of Cotton Eater, edition 1/6, 2014. Woodcut on found sugar sack quilt. 72 x 34 in.
The Powerful Prints of Alison Saar Exhibit at Chazen Museum of Art
A retrospective of the vital and articulate prints of prominent American artist Alison Saar underscores her persistent dialogue with some of the most urgent issues of our time, including race, gender…
Mlle Pogany in gallery
The Calming Effect—and Global Influences—of Brancusi’s "Mlle Pogany"

Veronika Molnar, an intern in the Department of Media and Performance, discusses the calming effect—and global influences—of Constantin Brancusi’s 1913 sculpture Mlle Pogany at MoMA…

view of multiple sculptures in the park in front of a mountainous fall landscape.
Monumental Vermont Sculpture Park Reopens to the Public
Cold Hollow Sculpture Park will open its 2021 season on June 12, 2021, with more than sixty sculptures placed on over 200 acres of rolling landscape, CHSP offers a safe and invigorating way to gather…
Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, April 29 – June 19, 2021.
David Zwirner Presents Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight
One of three concurrent outings by the artist, and one of two exhibitions at Zwirner venues uptown and down, Chimes is ensconced in the gallery’s W 20th Street space, which has been painted a…
The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping

Created by the artist Carol Bove (born 1971), The séances aren’t helping is the second commission to be featured on the facade of The Met Fifth Avenue. Working improvisationally, Bove…

Carol Bove at David Zwirner

David Zwirner is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions of new work by American artist Carol Bove (b. 1971) at its 34 East 69th Street and 537 West 20th Street locations in New York. On…

Maria Martins The Impossible, III
An Unsettling Sculpture Dramatizing the Thin Line Between Love and Hate

MoMA development officer Jamie Bergos is brave enough to get up close with Maria Martins’s 1946 sculpture "The Impossible, III," and wonders if its ambiguity—Are the figures fighting? Merging?—is…

Calder Working
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start

Alexander Calder reimagined sculpture as an experiment in space and motion, upending centuries-old notions that sculpture should be static, grounded, and dense by making artworks that often move…

a line of of marble busts receding into the distance.
Ancient Art Returns to Public View in Rome
One of the most important private collections of antiquities, hidden away for decades, is being put on public display once again.
Amethyst Crystallized Large Gengar
Fictional Archeology: An Interview with Daniel Arsham 

Celebrated for his stylish sculptures of decaying technological devices and crumbling cultural artifacts, Daniel Arsham makes art that looks…

Arno Breker, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1944.
In Defense of Neoclassicism
Despite its ugly political connotation acquired in the decades that followed the inception of twentieth-century neoclassicism, this artistic movement fully expressed the cultural zeitgeist of…
large red metal sculpture of roots in a garden
Steve Tobin: Nature Underground

NAPLES, FL – Naples Botanical Garden opens its 2020-21 season, Roots: Power of the Unseen, with an ambitious 11-month exhibition of artist Steve Tobin’s acclaimed “Roots” sculptures. The…

Beth Lipman glass still life sculpture
Beth Lipman's Elegy in Glass
At the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), Beth Lipman’s sumptuous feasts in glass glisten under the gallery lights.