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Last night (15 August), this year’s edition of Sculpture Quadrennial Riga kicked off at the Latvian capital’s NOASS art centre. Running since 1972, the 2024 festival takes on the theme ‘What Would Not Have Been’ – inviting artists to reflect on themes of urban memory, (in)equality, hostile architecture and defence, while paying attention to the isolating nature of making creative work within the current socio-political context. Though a thoroughly international event, Latvian creatives are well represented, with participating artists including Laimdota Malle, Kaspars Brambergs and Roberts Bali...
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The Zuck strikes again! Fresh off his last eyebrow-raising stunt - surfing in a full tuxedo while holding an American flag (yes, you read that correctly...) - the Facebook overlord has once again outdone himself. Today, he took to Instagram to show off his new masterpiece: a somewhat peculiar-looking sculpture of his wife of 12 years, Priscilla Chan. In the post, captioned "Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife", Chan is seen standing beside the sculpture in a robe, sipping from a mug that matches the statue’s colour scheme. To bring his grand vision to life, Zuck...
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The Musée Rodin in Paris is set to open its first overseas branch in the Chinese city of Shanghai. Slated for September, the museum’s launch is timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between France and China. Backed by the French Ministry of Culture and State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China, with additional private funding from French-Chinese art collector Wu Jing, the new venue will be known as the Centre d’Art Rodin. The China outpost of the French flagship institution – which focuses on the works of celebrated 19th-century sculptor Auguste Rodin – was in...
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Sculpture in the City has returned to London, brightening the UK capital’s streets and public spaces with bold artworks. The annual event “uses the urban realm as a rotating gallery space,” according to the organisers. The 13th edition will see 17 sculptures by 15 artists grace the streets of the City of London, with some already installed and others arriving in September. Participating artists include Clare Burnett, Hilary Jack and Oliver Bragg. Find these 17 artworks hidden around LondonSculpture in the City sees everything from giant statement sculptures to neon writing decorating the Squar...
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The daughter of the late Colombian artist Fernando Botero has helped to turn the streets and piazzas of the Italian capital into an open-air museum to display eight of her father’s famously voluminous, whimsical sculptures. The exhibition was organised as a tribute to Botero, who died September 15, 2023, at 91 in Monaco, where he kept a studio. The artist also lived for many years in the Italian town of Pietrasanta in the Tuscany region, where he was buried next to his third wife, the artist Sophia Vari. “I am sure my father would be very moved because Italy was always like a second home count...
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Explosion de sensualité dans les rues de Rome. 8 oeuvres monumentales de Fernando Botero ont été exposées au coeur de la capitale italienne. Un dialogue entre formes contemporaines et architecture classique en hommage à l'artiste colombien décédé le 15 septembre dernier. "Botero a toujours dit qu'il n'avait jamais peint de grosse femme et qu'il n'avait jamais sculpté de grosse femme. Ce qui le fascinait, c'était le volume. Ce Sa capacité à donner des formes de volume qui nous plaisent et nous attirent en fait certainement un sculpteur qui a marqué le XXème siècle" explique Lorenzo Zichichi, co...
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Vingt-et-un professionnels de Russie et d'ailleurs, dont plusieurs champions du monde, s'affrontent entre les murs de la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul, lieu de fondation de la ville en 1703. Le thème de cette année, "Le Soleil de la Terre Russe", célèbre l'histoire et la culture russes. Se déroulant du 12 juillet au 12 septembre, la 20e édition du festival est dédiée au poète du XIXe siècle Alexandre Pouchkine.
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Twenty-one professionals from Russia and abroad compete at the Peter and Paul Fortress. Among the group are Guinness World Record holders and World Champions. This year's theme, "The Sun of the Russian Land," celebrates Russian history and culture. Running from July 12 to September 12, the festival's 20th edition is dedicated to 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin and 13th-century commander Alexander Nevsky.
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A red pipe of glowing glass bangles runs horizontally through Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Underground Gallery, replicating an artery. Walking beneath it, there’s a sense of being both inside and outside of yourself; grounded by the functional elements of our bodies, while also elevated by their connection to something greater. This is artist Bharti Kher’s goal: to help us - women, especially - realise our unlimited potential. Denmark’s National Museum explores the life of the formidable Viking sorceress VölvaExplore the past, present and future in 'The Infinite Woman': Alona Pardo's new exhibit...
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The British-born artist Anthony McCall is very much in the spotlight this month at London's Tate Modern. Doors have opened on his first major exhibit at the gallery in which McCall projects beams of intense light through spaces filled with fine mist to create interactive sculptures that can be manipulated by visitors. His career began as a filmmaker but was inspired by beams of light from cinema projectors. McCall has lived in New York since the 1970s and it was there he began exploring sculpting light. Meet the artist creating life-size sculptures of endangered animals from cardboard The mist...
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