Sculpture Archive
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Notes from the field — Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Posted on March 1, 2016Ivy Sanders Schneider– In a 1964 photograph of Alexander Calder’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, children are touching the sculptures. They are blowing on them, pressing against them, kneeling on them. […] -
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Fluid Lines, Idealized Forms: The Art of Martin Puryear / Interview with Mark Pascale by David Ebony
Posted on December 18, 2015David Ebony– How important is drawing for a sculptor? Among the most subtle of contemporary American abstract sculptors, Martin Puryear has produced elegant and sometimes astonishing drawings and prints over […] -
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Sneak peek: Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America
Posted on December 11, 2015The recent coverage of artist Ai Weiwei’s planned use of Legos in an artwork about free speech to be included in the exhbition “Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei” at the […] -
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Sneak Peek: David Getsy’s Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
Posted on July 24, 2015David Getsy’s new book, Abstract Bodies, is eye-opening; by applying the field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history, he offers a new and revelatory approach to long-standing debates […] -
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St. Patrick’s Day
Posted on March 17, 2015Ivy Sanders Schneider– Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, is commonly associated with his eponymous holiday, the color green, shamrocks, and for driving the snakes out of Ireland. However, Patrick, […]