Fish, Divers Swim through Underwater Mexico Museum

CANCUN.- Schools of glittering silver-white fish swoop past a statue of a man hunched over a workbench, the first seabed artwork in a new underwater museum in Mexico’s Caribbean Sea. The cement sculpture, called “The Collector,” shows a figure who records bottled treasures in logbooks. It weighs four tons and is anchored 26 feet under the sea. Divers watch a yellowtail damselfish nibble on algae growing from the sculpture’s pant leg, which its creators hope will eventually sprout colorful coral. [...]

Sculptures by Jonathan Prince on View at Cynthia Reeves

NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan Prince’s sculptures simultaneously evoke the work of 20th century fine art masters like Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp, and ancient archeological artifacts. Principally, his work is concerned with exposing the stone’s latent power through large-scale, universally iconic forms. Ellipses, spheres and cubes are intentionally interrupted by the artist’s hand to infer a sense of discovery of something ancient. Prince refers to this body of work as “Fragments”. In the series, he suggests a form, but does [...]

Anish Kapoor to Design Iconic Visitor Attraction for Olympic Park

LONDON.- The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, today unveiled the artist and design chosen to create a spectacular new visitor attraction in the Olympic Park. Award winning London-based artist Anish Kapoor has been given the commission of a lifetime to design the spectacular new public attraction in the Olympic Park. The stunning artwork, to be entitled ‘The ArcelorMittal Orbit’, will ensure the Park remains an unrivalled visitor destination following the 2012 Games, [...]

Contemporary Peruvian Artist Kukuli Velarde Exhibits at Barry Friedman Ltd.

NEW YORK, NY.- Barry Friedman Ltd. presents contemporary Peruvian artist Kukuli Velarde in her first solo show since joining the gallery. Recently awarded the prestigious USA Knight Fellowship by the Knight Foundation and the United States Artists organization, Velarde exhibits an installation of ceramic sculptures from her Plunder Me Baby series, figurative paintings on aluminum from her Cadavers series, and a video/drawing performance, Apple of his Eye, that took place during the first two weeks of the exhibition. Inspired by [...]

Storm King Announces Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration

MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center, widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest sculpture parks, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a diversity of offerings throughout its 2010 and 2011 seasons. Highlights include 5+5: New Perspectives, a special exhibition comprising twelve new and recent works, which will be loaned and sited in Storm King’s expansive landscape by ten artists. Six of the sculptures were specially created for the occasion. Inside the museum building, Storm King presents The View from Here: [...]

Cool(e)motion Spotlights Climate Change in a Unique Way

THE HAGUE.- The first of four artprojects by the Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen has been erected on an iceberg along the coast of Greenland. With the help of GPS, the journey of the two ‘dog sled riders’ can be followed live on the internet (www.coolemotion.org). Ultimately the iceberg will melt and the sculptures will disappear into the ocean. The sculptures are therefore a symbolic reminder that the local population has had to give up certain cultural practices as a direct [...]

Denmark’s Famed Little Mermaid Begins Trip to the World Expo

COPENHAGEN.- Denmark’s famed Little Mermaid statue left her perch in the Copenhagen harbor Thursday and started a journey to the World Expo in Shanghai — the first trip abroad in her 96-year history. The 5-foot (1.5-meter) landmark, which honors the memory of Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen, was lifted by a crane and lowered onto the back of a truck at a ceremony in the Danish capital. The exact travel itinerary is being kept secret for security reasons, [...]

Henry Moore’s Butterfly Moved to a Factory for Restoration

BERLIN.- Henry Moore’s sculpture located in front of the Mirror Pond at the House of World Cultures will get a shine. Through a collaboration between three partners the sculpture will be restored this year. The loading of the sculpture for transport was made by a crane on Monday. “There is a right physical size for every idea,” the British artist Henry Moore would say. In 1984, Henry Moore created his last public work, ” Butterfly”, on the occasion of the [...]

Romanesque Sculptures by Tacita Dean at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- The monumental cycle of Romanesque sculptures in the cloister at Santo Domingo de Silos has long attracted visitors, including generations of artists. When Tacita Dean made her first visit there, many features in this historic complex engaged her attention, not least the Gregorian service of Vespers with which the monks end the day. Some months later, she returned in order to study more closely doodles and graffiti on and around the cloister’s colonnade, marks that she imagined might have [...]

Ursula von Rydingsvard Present three New Monumental Works at Galerie Lelong

NEW YORK, NY.- In her sixth solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Ursula von Rydingsvard will present three new monumental works that exemplify the artist as a sculptor in full command of her craft, further developing the vocabulary that she has so thoroughly honed: abstract, architectural forms composed of accretions of wood. Each of the three works “Bride’s Veil, Unraveling, and Blackened Word” is tightly composed around a structured center and unfurls into a more complex, expansive configuration. ERRĀTUS, “wandering” or [...]