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Sculpture

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A studio portrait shows a man wearing sunglasses, a white T-shirt and tan pants standing in a cluttered workshop with tools, shelves, hoses, sculptures and worktables around him.

Sébastien Léon’s Material Exploration

"I’m interested in imagining a different physical world, almost a parallel set of conditions where matter follows a slightly altered logic," the artist told Observer.
By Christa Terry
Photo by Dan Bradica Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

The Temporal and Geographical Ambiguity of Mark Manders

Frozen in the moment of becoming, the artist's new bronzes and newspaper works ask what it means to hold an entire civilization in a single object.
By Elisa Carollo
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

"Absurdity allows us to see things differently. If we look at the same chair every day, eventually we stop seeing it. But if we shift perspective and look at it through absurdity or paradox, suddenly the social conventions behind it become visible."
By Elisa Carollo

72 Hours of Art in Salt Lake City: Museum Hopping, Spiral Jetty and Sculpture on the Slopes

By Christa Terry
A marble bust of a woman in profile, showcasing detailed facial features, a textured hairstyle, and draped clothing, placed on a square pedestal against a neutral background.

One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

By Dan Duray
A bold abstract painting featuring geometric and biomorphic shapes in vivid colors. A large red circle dominates the composition, surrounded by angular forms, curved lines, and areas of black and white contrast.

The Top Lots to Watch in the March London Sales

By Elisa Carollo
Erica Mahinay seated in her studio, surrounded by large abstract paintings with vertical luminous lines and gestural forms.

Erica Mahinay’s Explorations of the Threshold Between the Seen and the Sensed

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of the artist standing next to a work of art featuring a suitcase with a piece of meat inside and a drawing of a figure with a unicorn head.

At Swivel Gallery, Amy Bravo Confronts Intergenerational Trauma, Identity and the Power of the Collective

By Elisa Carollo
Large horn-like artworks in an otherwise empty gallery space

Mia Westerlund Roosen’s Ongoing Material Inquiry

By Christa Terry
View from inside Olafur Eliasson’s Vertical Panorama Pavilion, showing a circular opening framed by a rainbow-colored glass canopy above landscaped paths.

How the Donum Estate Cultivated a World-Class Sculpture Garden

By Elisa Carollo
A side-by-side pairing of an abstract painting on the left with organic, almost human lines and a terra cotta statue of a curvy human on the right

Adrian Parr Zaretsky’s Intimate Response to an Unthinkable World

By Christa Terry
A large, raspberry-shaped sculpture rests on a concrete floor, its surface composed of tightly packed red bead-like forms. One side ruptures into a cavern of green, turquoise, and white crystals, resembling mold and mineral growth, creating a vivid contrast between fleshy abundance and geological decay.

Artist Kathleen Ryan’s Beautiful Blight

By Mya Ward
A post-impressionist painting of a lake and valley surrounded by mountains, with expressive dabs of color suggesting reflections and vegetation.

In “Faces and Landscapes of Home,” Hauser & Wirth Brings Giacometti Back to Stampa

By Alistair MacQueen
A museum exhibition featuring paintings of people on the walls and sculpted heads in glass vitrines.

One Fine Show: “Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, More Than Character Heads” at the Belvedere in Vienna

By Dan Duray
An exterior street-level view shows a modern cylindrical building clad in vertical metal and glass panels, identified as the Toyama Glass Art Museum, standing at a city intersection under a clear blue sky.

A Museum Lover’s Guide to Toyama Glass Art Museum

By Malik Peay
A gallery installation view shows multiple ceramic works arranged on the walls and two large ceramic sculptures on white pedestals, all illuminated by overhead spotlights on wooden floors. If you'd prefer these written in your Observer alt-text style (more concise, more atmosphe

Samuel Sarmiento’s Ceramics Channel Universal Memory in His U.S. Debut

By Elisa Carollo
A bar cart shaped like a hippo, with several panels open to reveal the compartments holding bottles and glassware

François-Xavier Lalanne’s ‘Hippopotame Bar’ Sets a New Auction Record for the Artist

By Christa Terry
Another angle of the exhibition, highlighting the whimsical ceramic sculptures arranged on pedestals and a wooden table. The figures, with oversized heads and soft features, are displayed alongside vibrant paintings on the wall, creating a dialogue between sculpture and painting in a spacious, minimal gallery setting.

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

By Elisa Carollo
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

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

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

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
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