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Sculpture

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A glossy black glass sculpture shaped like a hemisphere sits on a pedestal, with two smaller matching dome forms beside it, reflecting light in a dimly lit gallery.

Nika Neelova On “UMBRA” and the Death of Linear Time

Her exhibition at NIKA Project Space in Paris turns impermanence into an act of creation and disappearance into a quiet form of resistance.
By Naima Morelli
A collage of two ceramic animal statues set in a grid with a gradiant background

How Artist Alake Shilling Gives Kitsch a Conscience

Through her ceramic sculpture, the artist strikes world-weary sentiment into the eyes of nostalgically precious woodland creatures.
By Mya Ward
A tall black sculpture with mirrored and carved human faces stands on a grassy riverside park with New York City’s Queensboro Bridge in the background.

In New York City, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Is Charting New Models for Sustainable Sculptural and Installation Practices

The organization deliberately focuses on process—the research, prototyping and inevitable failures that precede a finished artwork—to provoke questions about value and worth within the existing art economy.
By Elisa Carollo
A series of sculptural metal works hang from the ceiling in a gallery with a grid of square skylights set into the ceiling

One Fine Show: ‘June Crespo, Danzante’ at Secession

By Dan Duray
A rough-textured bronze bust of a man with a gaunt, elongated face and hollow eyes, emerging from a heavily worked base that blurs into his shoulders.

Christie’s Secures Another Major Consignment in Max Berry’s Encyclopedic Art Collection

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view of a room clad in drywall panels with fire extinguishers arranged beside a recessed white pit.

MoMA PS1’s ‘The Gatherers’ Rejects Climate Catastrophism in Favor of Resilient Resourcefulness

By Elisa Carollo
Sculptural installation featuring a large red flower-like form with white and black center, surrounded by smaller colorful fabric constructions on the floor and wall.

Don’t Miss: Hannah Woo’s Hybrid Bodies Confronting Adaptation Beyond the Human

By Elisa Carollo
Inside the vast dome of Museum SAN, Gormley’s rust-colored, modular figures are placed across the reflective floor, framed by circular openings to sky and landscape.

Antony Gormley Reflects on Sculpture as an Inquiry into Being and Space

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery space displays several large translucent glass cubes, one glowing pink, each occupying its own platform under a high wooden ceiling with exposed beams.

Larry Bell’s Luminous Geometry Heads to Madison Square Park

By Jordan Riefe
A misty desert view shows a monumental balloon-like sculpture silhouetted against the sky, its massive rounded forms partially obscured by dust and light.

Come Back Alive’s Vitaliy Deynega Reckons With the Destruction of Ukraine’s ‘Black Cloud’ at Burning Man

By Elisa Carollo
A suspended mesh sculpture by Alice Adams titled Big Aluminium I from 1965 hangs horizontally in space, casting shadows on the wall and accompanied by seven upright wooden sticks leaning against the gallery floor.

Courtauld Gallery’s ‘Abstract Erotic’ Revisits Structural Sexuality in Sculpture

By Simon Coates
A ceramic jug shaped like exaggerated human anatomy with the words “100% Horse Milk” sits on a bathroom counter in front of a mirror, with a man photographing it.

Observer’s Top Five: What Not to Miss at the Aspen Art Fair

By Dan Duray
An image of curator Eleanor Clayton standing beside Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 sculpture Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, which features red strings and a painted concave interior.

Curator Eleanor Clayton On the Race to Keep a National Treasure in Britain

By Dan Duray
A black and white lithograph titled Aoki by Ruth Asawa from 1965 depicts a side profile of a young girl wearing a bonnet, rendered in ghostly, soft-edged tones against a blank background.

Shaping Air and Space: Ruth Asawa at SFMOMA

By Brian Karl
Gallery view featuring Rosso’s busts on minimalist black pedestals in a spacious wooden-floored exhibition room.

At Kunstmuseum Basel, Medardo Rosso’s Radical Dismantling of Form

By Elisa Carollo
A historic black-and-white image of women working on a massive sculptural relief, standing on scaffolding and platforms, applying plaster to larger-than-life female figures.

How the White Rabbits of Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition Sculpted a Lasting Legacy

By Mary Gregory
Close-up of alternating blue crystals and red volcanic rocks arranged in a linear path on a white granular surface, emphasizing the material contrast and tactile quality of the installation.

Luana Vitra Elevates Minerals to Spiritual and Political Agents at SculptureCenter

By Elisa Carollo
Wangechi Mutu’s Underground Hornship sculpture, set on a reflective surface within the grand gallery space of Galleria Borghese, juxtaposed against antique statues and historical architecture.

First Look: Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese

By Elisa Carollo
A sign of a man leaning against a mirror in a mostly empty outdoor space

At Oslo Opera House, a Celebration of Jiří Kylián’s Creative Vision

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A dark metal sculpture of a stylized head, tilted upward and slightly open, is mounted on an angled bronze base atop a white pedestal in a gallery.

Gormley, Hunt and Zajko’s Imagined Futures of the Human Body

By Sam Moore
A portrait of artist Arcangelo Sassolino standing in front of one of his dark, textured circular works, wearing a black shirt and facing the camera with a neutral expression.

Arcangelo Sassolino On Fluid Time and Sculpting the Present

By Nicolas Vamvouklis
A museum gallery with white walls displaying a collection of ancient Roman marble sculptures, including a central seated male figure surrounded by busts and a standing female figure draped in a robe.

One Fine Show: “Myth and Marble” at the Art Institute of Chicago

By Dan Duray
Laurent Martin "Lo", Alignement des Planètes (Alignment of the Planets), 2024.

Laurent Martin “Lo” and the Art of Bending Nature Without Breaking It

By Xinyi Ye
Two bodies hanging in a tree

Shana Hoehn Explores the Uncanny Dichotomy Between Suffocation and Shelter in L.A.

By Elisa Carollo
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