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Sculpture

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An outdoor installation view shows rows of small greenish glass blocks arranged across a cobblestone courtyard inside a medieval stone fortress.

The Biennale of Contemporary Keramics Finds in Rhodes Its Most Resonant Stage Yet

The "K" in Keramics points back to "kéramos," the ancient Greek word for pottery. It is a simple typographic shift, yet it sets the tone for an exhibition that seeks to engage with an old medium without leaving it inert.
By Nicolas Vamvouklis
An outdoor view shows a river and rocks seen through a circular opening in a leafy green structure.

“Climate Clock” in Oulu Reckons With a Warming World

Curator Alice Sharp describes the project as an attempt to step outside the ordinary tyranny of clock time and into something else: a space "between the tick and the tock," where new worlds can be imagined.
By Elise Morton
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
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
A man working on a serpent-like scylpture made of heads

How Sculptor David Altmejd Taps into the Collective Unconscious Through Material

By Elisa Carollo
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