Wind Powered Art: Sculptors and Sculptures that Harness Nature

As the battle over climate change is waged, there’s a group of sculptors who are leaping ahead of the crowd and utilizing wind power already. Artists create wind powered sculptures to make a statement about the combination between nature and art, or just because wind is a plentiful power source. Whether sculptures are kinetic or static, gritty and down to earth, or large and exotic, wind powered sculptures bridge the boundaries between man and nature. (Images via chadvonnau, nounsafterverbs, cyanatrendland) [...]

Refurbished Dundee Gallery Lights Up with Spectacular New Commission

DUNDEE.- A stunning, luminously coloured new sculpture has been installed in its new home at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, to mark the building’s £12 million refurbishment. Commissioned directly from the artist, “Waldella, Dundee”, by David Batchelor was partly funded by independent charity The Art Fund with a grant of £27,740. The work, specifically designed for The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum and never publicly displayed before, is the largest and most ambitious contemporary work ever to [...]

Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

BOSTON, MA.- In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was shaped and modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning “baked earth”), this type of sculpture often has been overlooked by scholars in favor of the more commonly known Renaissance sculptures carved in marble or cast in bronze. “Modeling Devotion: Terracotta Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance”, a new scholarly exhibition at the Isabella [...]

Exhibition Re-Asserts Henry Moore’s Position at the Forefront of Sculpture

LONDON.- Radical, experimental and avant garde, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. This major exhibition will re-assert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his works for a generation. Henry Moore will present over 150 significant works including stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings. Henry Moore will reveal the range and quality of Moore’s art in new ways – sometimes uncovering a dark and erotically charged dimension [...]

Famous Trumpeter, Herb Alpert, Exhibits Totems at Ace Gallery

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Totems have pan-cultural associations throughout diverse cultures around the world, and these vertical forms have been used throughout history as tribal talismans representative of the spirit world and genealogies, ancestors and documenting societies. Herb Alpert, in his Black Totem series, has focused on this language of sculpture for the past 20 years and addresses this geneaology in his Black Totem sculptures. Alpert’s process for creating these sculptures is manually intensive. He works with wet clay first, molding [...]

Butter Sculptures: art with food

Butter Sculptures: A Brief History Tibetan Buddhists were first to bestow upon us the butter sculpture. Covering monastery altars and family shrines for years, the intricate offerings are still sacred today. Monk artists work in extremely cold conditions to avoid the inevitable melting issue. During the 19th century, the tradition spread to North America where butter sculpting has become a standard at state fairs. One of the most recognizable and beloved is Butter Cow, first created at the Iowa State [...]

A Collectors Menagerie Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World

LONDON.- Ever since I first drew on the walls of his cave, man has had the desire to depict the creatures around him. The Sladmore Gallery, 57 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London, animal is renowned for exhibiting sculpture from the last 200 years, and has now invited Rupert Wace Ancient Art to introduce collectors to a veritable menagerie from the ancient world, spanning a period of some 2.400 years. A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient Worldwill be on [...]

Kenny Hunter’s I Goat Wins 45,000 Spitalfields Sculpture Prize

LONDON.- Kenny Hunter is the winner of the inaugural Spitalfields Sculpture Prize. Hunter beat seven other shortlisted designs to win the £45,000 commission and his work – I Goat – will be sited in Bishops Square, Spitalfields from October 2010. Scottish sculptor Hunter is known for his monumental sculptures and his works have been exhibited worldwide. I Goat shows a hand-sculpted goat standing atop a stack of packing crates. Hunter was inspired by Spitalfields’ rich, ongoing, social history. The goat [...]

Ron Mueck’s Sculptural Work Arrives at Manchester Art Gallery

MANCHESTER.- Thanks to the ongoing tour of ARTIST ROOMS, the hyper-real sculptures of celebrated artist Ron Mueck will be on show at Manchester Art Gallery from 4 February to 11 April 2010. Ron Mueck’s sculptural work concentrates on the human form, tenderly portraying people in their most intimate, isolated and vulnerable moments. This exhibition features three of his remarkable, out-of-scale sculptures from the ARTIST ROOMS collection: Wild Man, 2005; Spooning Couple, 2005; and Mask III, 2005. Following the success of [...]

New Sculpture Acquisition at the KIA Showcases African-American Artist

KALAMAZOO, MI.- Just in time for the start of African American History Month, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts has put on display their latest acquisition, Edmonia Lewis’s, The Marriage of Hiawatha, 1872. Marble. This statue was purchased through the generosity of an anonymous donor. Now on display in the lobby of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Marriage of Hiawatha is a white, marble statue reminiscent of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. The piece was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s [...]