Lee Bontecou Pioneer American Sculptor And Printmaker Dies Aged 91
Lee Bontecou, whose mysterious shaped canvas abstractions broke barriers in the 1960s, has died at her home in Florida, aged 91
8 August 2022
Horniman Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Alan Turing Sculpture
Horniman Agrees To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Sculpture Celebrating Codebreaker Alan Turing
24 March 2022
William Turnbull At 100 Retrospective Announced By Offer Waterman
William Turnbull (1922-2012) was one of Britain’s most important post-war Modernists. He was described by Nicholas Serota when Director of the Tate as ‘an exceptional artist
10 March 2022
Love Is In The (Open) Air Robert Indiana Sculpture YSP – James Payne
Even if you don’t know Robert Indiana’s name, you know his most popular work, LOVE. Cited as the most known artwork in the world, it is, in fact so famous that many people may not even realise it’s an artwork at all.
3 January 2022
George Rickey A Life In Balance – Clare Henry
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement.
9 June 2021
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
26 February 2021
Liverpool Biennial 2021 Announce Outdoor And Digital Commissions
The 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial will open the first ‘outside’ chapter of The Stomach and the Port on 20 March 2021, starting with a major new outdoor sculpture series, sonic and digital commissions
6 December 2020
Nicola Ravenscroft Sculpture With A Peaceful Stillness – Revd Jonathan Evens
Nicola Ravenscroft A graduate of Camberwell School of Art, she has owned and run a sculpture gallery and, as an art teacher, has nurtured many young people into celebrating their inherent creativity and thinking beyond the walls.
26 October 2020
Stik Creates A New Diversity Commission Fund For Hackney Public Sculptures
The popular Street Artist Stik has created a new fund for Hackney that will commission artists to create public sculptures reflecting the diverse communities of the borough.
9 December 2019
Sculptor Conrad Shawcross On Space And Time – Interview Paul Carter Robinson
On the surface, Conrad Shawcross’ sculpture retains the appearance of scientific rationality.
23 July 2019
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Collection To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s Paris is to offer the personal collection of Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne this autumn.
1 July 2019
Sculpture In The City London Unveils Edition Nine
Sculpture in the City, the annual public art programme set amongst well-known architectural landmarks, has launched, celebrating their ninth edition. Nineteen artworks make up this year’s outdoor sculpture park in the Square Mile, to include a new artwork by Jonathan Trayte to be unveiled in Autumn 2019.
Nancy Fouts Sculptor Who Reconfigured Commonplace Objects Dies
The artist Nancy Fouts who has died age 74 found herself starting adult life in what, for a girl from Kentucky, must have been the confusing and somewhat alien world of a British finishing school.
24 September 2018
Second Hepworth Prize For Sculpture Exhibition Unveiled In October
In October 2018 the Hepworth Wakefield launches the second Hepworth Prize Sculpture exhibition. This year’s shortlisted artists are Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Phillip Lai, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans. Each artist has created a new work for display in the exhibition.
11 May 2018
Stik To Erect Gender Neutral Sculpture In Hoxton Square
Stik, is an instantly recognisable and much loved London based Street Artist. His style is known for depicting brightly coloured figures which appear on murals from London to New York to Japan.
15 April 2018
Emily Young: First Contemporary Works Exhibited In New College Cloisters – Paul Black
Considering that British sculptor Emily Young strives to marry the ancient and contemporary
18 January 2018
Dennis Oppenheim Sculpture Destroyed By South Korean Authorities
A sculpture by the late US artist Dennis Oppenheim has been destroyed in South Korea by the Haeundae District Office, local authorities.
Richard Deacon: Accidents Will Happen – Major New Exhibition Middelheim Museum Antwerp
Sometimes the best art is born out of a mistake. It is this type of accidental trial and error that keeps the Turner Prize winning artist Richard Deacon on his toes, as a practitioner of fresh ideas and innovations.
11 May 2017
Giacometti An Artist Of Distance Not Intimacy By Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern’s new Giacometti show, following hot on the heels of a recent show dedicated to the same artist at the National Portrait Gallery, is nevertheless welcome for the comprehensive view it gives of one of the major stars of the Modern Movement.
26 April 2017
15 February 2017
Eduardo Paolozzi Retrospective Opens At The Whitechapel – Preview
The first London retrospective exhibition of the innovative artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) has opened at the Whitechapel. Paolozzi was one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Considered one of the the ‘godfathers of Pop Art’.
22 October 2016
Rodin’s Relationship To Dance Explored In New Unashamedly Academic Courtauld Exhibition
The Courtauld Gallery’s small, intimate, two room exhibition is devoted to a little-known body of work made by Rodin in the last two decades of his life. Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement 20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017 / The Courtauld Gallery
Artist Gerry Judah Creates Mega Sculpture For Goodwood Festival of Speed Centenary
Artist Gerry Judah was asked by BMW to come up with a sculpture, bigger and better than anything he’s done before, to commemorate the centenary at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, West Sussex. With over two hundred thousand visitors over one weekend, this is the global platform where the world’s most amazing motorsport machines are […]
Gerry Judah Unveils Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015 Sculpture
Gerry Judah’s the artist known for his relief sculptures of war torn zones and freestanding Indian shrines has again created the centrepiece at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which this year celebrates the Mazda Motor Corporation’s unique motorsport heritage with a powerful fusion of sculptural innovation and engineering precision. Locked in close contention, the rotary-engined 787B […]
Anish Kapoor Claims Versailles Vagina Sculpture Vandalism Was Politically Motivated
First we had Paul McCarthy’s giant inflatable ‘sex toy’ sculpture being reduced to a flaccid lump of plastic on one of Paris’s swankiest squares after vandals attacked the work ‘Tree’ when it was on display at the Place Vendome in Paris. Now, in the wake of criticism for Anish Kapoor’s latest work in Versailles ‘Dirty […]
26 January 2015
Virginia Overton, White Cube Mason’s Yard – The Concrete Poetry Of Language
White Cube Mason’s Yard presents the first UK exhibition of new work by American artist Virginia Overton. For this exhibition Overton has worked with the gallery space, creating new, site-specific works using locally sourced, recycled materials, which are then turned into sculpture and installation that is a direct response to the space. The artist’s practice […]
Stolen Dale Chihuly Sculpture Destroyed By Combine Harvester In Corn Field
Four people have been charged with the theft of sculpture by the internalionally renouned artist Dale Chihuly. Sections of the installation were stolen from the Denver Botanic Gardens last summer. Alex Brook, 23, Joseph Parnell, 36, were charged with theft, tampering with evidence and felony criminal mischief. Sean Sorenson, 20, and Auvia Bellamy, 19, were […]
Sculptor Anish Kapoor To Use Blackest Black Ever
Acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor, renowned for the use of colour and pigments in his production of his sculpture, is embracing the newly invented blackest black ever created, The artificial substance Vantablack which was created by London-based Surrey NanoSystems, dubbed as a kind of ‘super black’, the darkness of which does not exist in nature. The […]
Bronze Memorial Statue Of Amy Winehouse Unveiled In London
Three years after the death of singer Amy Winehouse – on what would have been the musician’s 31st Birthday – a life-size bronze statue has been unveiled in Camden, north London. The artwork was created by sculptor Scott Eaton; and features the troubled ‘Back to Black’ singer’s trademark beehive hairdo, with hand on hip. Hundreds […]
Chapman Brothers Explicit Sculpture Banned From Art Exhibition In Rome
A work of art by the Turner Prize nominated artists Jake and Dinos Chapman has been removed from an art exhibition at the Maxxi Gallery in Rome after a children’s rights group complained to the president of the gallery. Piggyback, a life-size painted bronze sculpture depicts two nude young girls engaged in a piggyback ride. […]