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‘Worse than Ronaldo’s’: fans mock George Best statue in Belfast14h ago ( May 23, 2019 at 1:17 PM ) Artwork joins list of footballers’ bronzes that received less than glowing reviewsFrom Cristiano Ronaldo to Diego Maradona, a dubious likeness in bronze has become almost de rigueur for any self-respecting football superstar.Now the late, great George Best has been added to the list, after fans heaped criticism on a life-size bronze statue of the Manchester United legend that was unveiled in his native Belfast this week. Continue reading...Tags: Art, Football, Sport, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Manchester United, Sculpture, Northern Ireland, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Belfast, Diego Maradona, George Best 22 people like this. Like Dreams becomes reality: the game that can make an artist out of anyone23h ago ( May 23, 2019 at 4:00 AM ) Digital artist Dan Hett explores the Dreamiverse, a galaxy of games, music, art and ideas created by players in a limitless virtual art studioAs a digital artist and experimental games designer, I was one of the first in line to dive into Dreams – a PlayStation 4 game that aims to give everyone the ability to unlock the potential artist within – when the developer Media Molecule opened up limited early access in April. From the breadth of its artistic toolset to the community of creators it is e...Tags: Art, Games, Technology, Playstation, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Playstation 4, Digital Video, Dan Hett 22 people like this. Like Top 10 new outdoor artworks and exhibitions in the UKMay 18, 2019 at 7:00 AM This crop of summer exhibitions by world-class artists in sculpture parks, gardens and beaches all make for a grand day outDale Chihuly, the celebrated US glass artist, exhibited at Kew Gardens 13 years ago. It was his most recent major outdoor show in Europe – and one of the most popular exhibitions ever held at Kew. Now he is back with Chihuly: Reflections on nature – 32 dazzling installations, including his Sapphire Star, the Seaforms series and a new work specially designed for the Temperate...Tags: Travel, Art, Europe, UK, US, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Day trips, Top 10s, Cultural Trips, United Kingdom Holidays, Pavilion, Kew Gardens, Kew, Sapphire Star 39 people like this. Like XX Marks the Spot: KAWS Goes GlobalMay 17, 2019 at 12:55 PM The artist known as KAWS is famous for his commercial collaborations. Now his paintings are fetching ever-higher auction prices.Tags: Art, News, Auctions, Sculpture, Christie's, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (NYC, Christian Dior SA, KAWS (1974- Art in the open: the joys of Jupiter Artland sculpture parkMay 17, 2019 at 1:30 AM The innovative sculpture park near Edinburgh is reopening for summer, marking its second decade with new commissions and an art and music festival‘You imagine what you desire,” reads an arty light sculpture in the grounds of Jupiter Artland. It’s my first visit to this privately owned sculpture park five miles west of Edinburgh and I’m feeling rather overwhelmed – Jupiter is a destination that challenges easy definitions. It has more than 100 acres of fields and woods, with views across rolling ...Tags: Travel, Art, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Edinburgh, City Breaks, Jupiter, Cultural Trips, Weekend Breaks, Short breaks, Scotland Holidays, United Kingdom Holidays, Edinburgh Holidays, Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley 23 people like this. Like Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living ArtistMay 16, 2019 at 5:51 AM A shiny and enigmatic steel sculpture sold for $91.1 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, edging past David Hockney.Tags: Art, News, David, Auctions, Sculpture, Christie's, Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, Christie, Jeff, Koons, Hockney, Newhouse, S I Jr 50 people like this. Like Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living ArtistMay 15, 2019 at 9:21 PM A shiny and enigmatic steel sculpture sold for $91.1 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, edging past David Hockney.Tags: Art, News, David, Auctions, Sculpture, Christie's, Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, Christie, Jeff, Koons, Hockney, Newhouse, S I Jr 7 people like this. Like Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Smashes Record for Work by a Living ArtistMay 15, 2019 at 8:21 PM A shiny and enigmatic steel sculpture sold for $91.1 million at Christie’s Wednesday.Tags: Art, News, David, Auctions, Sculpture, Christie's, Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, Christie, Jeff, Koons, Hockney, Newhouse, S I Jr 47 people like this. Like In the Studio With an Artist Who Makes Giant Woman-Shaped VasesMay 12, 2019 at 10:24 AM Ruby Neri’s voluptuous ceramic sculptures depict female figures as they dance, talk and ride horses.Tags: Art, News, Sculpture, Women and Girls, Ruby Neri 26 people like this. Like Feature: Tyree Guyton Turned a Detroit Street Into a Museum. Why Is He Taking It Down?May 9, 2019 at 5:00 AM The artist gained international acclaim making sculptures out of the wreckage in his neighborhood. Now he must effectively destroy his work in order to save it.Tags: Art, News, Museums, Sculpture, Detroit, Tyree Guyton, Restoration and Renovation, Detroit (Mich, Area Planning and Renewal 13 people like this. Like Ghana shakes up art's 'sea of whiteness' with its first Venice pavilionMay 8, 2019 at 1:20 PM In curving galleries designed by David Adjaye, artists are using bottletop sculptures and groundbreaking photography to put Africa firmly on the biennale mapThe Venice Art Biennale, the world’s most celebrated international art event, has a history that is inextricably bound up with colonialism. Its first pavilion for the showcasing of a “national” art was established by Belgium in 1907. Britain followed soon after. European countries remain dominant at the event – at least numerically.And altho...Tags: Art, China, Africa, Race, Video Art, Painting, UK News, World news, Culture, Britain, Art and design, Sculpture, Belgium, Installation, Venice, Ghana 23 people like this. Like Antony Gormley is the new kid on the block in ancient GreeceMay 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM The British sculptor has, controversially, been commissioned to create works for the island of Delos, a sacred classical siteIn all seasons the elements rage on Delos. In winter, salt winds pound its granite rocks; in summer the sun beats so heavily that the tiny outcrop, treeless and bare, almost vanishes in a haze of heat.But it was here, on the ancient Greek world’s most sacred isle, that Apollo, the god of light and his twin sister Artemis, the moon goddess, were born. And it was here in the...Tags: Art, Europe, Greece, World news, Art and design, Sculpture, Antony Gormley, Delos, Aegean 49 people like this. Like Conceptual Sculpture Highlights at Frieze New York 2019May 3, 2019 at 6:00 AM Seven multi-dimensional works that provoke imagination After a monumental Los Angeles debut earlier this year, Frieze Art Fair returns to New York. Set within pop-up pavilions of epic proportion—accessible by ferry on Randall’s Island—the acclaimed assembly of global art galleries presents their best. And it may be the most fetching iteration of Frieze (in this location) to date. From the grand mixed-media introduction to the …Tags: Art, New York, Design, Los Angeles, Culture, Sculpture, Island, Paintings, Randall, Art Fairs, Frieze New York, Fairs, Frieze art fair, Large Scale Art 5 people like this. Like Frieze Week 2019: When Dawoud Bey Met David HammonsMay 2, 2019 at 1:31 PM In the ’80s, a portrait photographer coming into his own captured an enigmatic artist creating his own legend. Rarely exhibited, the images are here, and at Frieze New York.Tags: Art, Photography, News, David, Sculpture, Ny, Blacks, Bey, Frieze New York, David Hammons, Hammons, Harlem (Manhattan, Dawoud, Dawoud Bey 20 people like this. Like A lamp with counterweight that could be an art installationMay 2, 2019 at 10:15 AM  Tags: Design, Sculpture, Lighting, Product Design, Table Lamp, Max Voytenko, Node Lamp 56 people like this. Like Venice Beach May Lose a Landmark: A Mark di Suvero SculptureApril 29, 2019 at 8:46 PM The 60-foot-tall sculpture, a popular meeting point for nearly two decades, will be dismantled and moved by the end of the year unless Los Angeles finds a way to keep it.Tags: Art, News, Los Angeles, Sculpture, Venice Beach, Mark, Calif, Steel and Iron, Los Angeles (Calif, L.A. Louver (Los Angeles, Di Suvero, Venice Beach (Calif 30 people like this. Like Monir Farmanfarmaian, 96, Dies; Artist Melded Islam and the AbstractApril 29, 2019 at 2:23 PM A Persian sculptor, she was known for abstract compositions of mirrors and glass. In her 10th decade she received a Guggenheim retrospective.Tags: Art, News, Iran, Sculpture, Deaths (Obituaries, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy, Artist Melded Islam 6 people like this. Like An Artist Who Makes Irreverent, and Pocket-Size, SculpturesApril 29, 2019 at 5:00 AM Ron Nagle helped pave the way for clay artists to be taken seriously — but he still has a sense of humor. Ahead of a new solo show, he discusses his work, his dog and his TV habits.Tags: Art, News, Sculpture, Ny, Matthew, Clay, Marks, Nagle, Gallery (Manhattan, Ceramics and Pottery, Ron Nagle, Ron (1939- 35 people like this. Like Snailiens and other delights from Ravendark CreationsApril 25, 2019 at 10:45 AM  Tags: Art, Post, Happy Mutants, Gift Guide, News, Etsy, Sculpture, Cthulhu, Mashups, Chrysalis, Giger, Fhtagn, Dad And Grads, Arend Smith, Snailien 138 people like this. Like Leper Messiah: Dig This New Sculpture Of Iggy Pop’s Most Iconic PoseApril 20, 2019 at 7:16 AM A new company called Wax Face Toys is launching with a remarkable figurine of Iggy Pop. Wax Face make licensed figures in resin and vinyl featuring cult heroes from the world of music and film. The Iggy figurine was sculpted in London by former Madame Tussauds artists and measures 15.7 inches (40 centimeters). More: Wax Face Toys h/t: dangerousminds It is based on the well-known photograph taken...
SourceTags: Music, Design, London, Rock, Sculpture, Wax, Classic, Iggy Pop, Wax Face Toys, Iggy Pop Wax Face 14 people like this. Like Critic’s Pick: Celestial Visions on the Met RoofApril 19, 2019 at 12:48 AM High above Manhattan, Alicja Kwade’s planetary sculpture captures the music of the spheres.Tags: Art, News, Sculpture, Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Alicja, Alicja Kwade, Kwade 35 people like this. Like You Can Live With A Polar Bear Mother And Cub With These Life-Sized Art MasterpiecesApril 18, 2019 at 10:33 AM This unique work is the first in film-oriented creative studio Blast, Inc.’s ANIMALS AS ART product line. Blast, Inc.’s producer Junya Okabe got the idea after he had the misfortune of seeing a taxidermy specimen of a once living polar bear set up in a storefront during a visit abroad. More: Shop h/t: grapee Although deeply saddened to know that such as majestic creature had been...
SourceTags: Design, Animals, Beer, Sculpture, Mother, Polar, Blast Inc, Junya Okabe 48 people like this. Like Jadayupara, The Largest Bird Sculpture In The WorldApril 18, 2019 at 7:24 AM Jatayu Earth Centre – The worlds largest bird sculpture is the new attraction of India, which is in Kerala 50 kilometer from Trivandrum towards North (Cochin direction). Traveling from Cochin to Trivandrum, this is 170 kilometer from Cochin, 114km from Alleppey and is 40km from Kollam. This is the masterpiece creation of Mr. Rajiv Anchal with a dedicated work of 10 years and the message being...
SourceTags: Travel, Design, India, World, Sculpture, Bird, Largest, Kerala, Rajiv Anchal, Alleppey, Cochin, Trivandrum, Jadayupara, Jatayu Earth Centre, North Cochin 6 people like this. Like Oblivion Factory: new sculptures from Jud TurnerApril 17, 2019 at 9:05 PM  Tags: Art, Post, Happy Mutants, News, Sculpture, Assemblage, Jud Turner, Late Stage Capitalism 119 people like this. Like A sculptural, hand-made lamp inspired by black holesApril 14, 2019 at 10:14 AM  Tags: Art, Post, Space, Christopher Nolan, News, Housewares, Nasa, Sculpture, Kip Thorne, Black Holes, Event Horizon, Gargantua, Art Donovan, Donovan New Art 76 people like this. Like Artist designs a machine-learning assisted sculpture, then casts it in the powdered remains of the computer used to design itApril 12, 2019 at 10:50 AM Ben Snell's sculpture Dio was created by training a machine learning system on a corpus of 1,000+ sculptures, tweaked in some unspecified way by Snell, who then 3D printed a mold based on the final shape: he filled the mold with a resin impregnated with the computer that ran the algorithm, which Snell had ground to powder.
“I consider myself, not the computer, to be the artist,” he says. But he also talks enthusiastically about the agency of his algorithms, saying that “Dio began by tryin...Tags: Art, Post, News, 3d Printing, Sculpture, Machine Learning, Ai, Dio, Snell, ML, James Vincent The Verge, Ben Snell 20 people like this. Like All the presidents’ busts – in picturesApril 10, 2019 at 3:51 AM Standing nearly 20 feet high, 43 US presidents’ busts, remnants from a bankrupted theme park, are stored in Croaker, Virginia, on the property of Howard Hankins who is seeking to restore the massive sculptures. Hankins has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to relocate the statues to a place where they can be visited by all Continue reading...Tags: Art, Photography, Virginia, US, World news, US news, Culture, US politics, Art and design, Sculpture, Hankins, Howard Hankins, Croaker Virginia 139 people like this. Like On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of FaithMarch 29, 2019 at 10:00 AM Known for confronting the laws of physics, the Polish-German artist builds a planetary sculpture and ponders our place in the universeTags: Art, News, Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Alicja, Roof Garden Commission, Alicja Kwade, Kwade 26 people like this. Like Critic’s Notebook: El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of JusticeMarch 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM A pilgrimage to Munich finds a resplendent tribute to the Ghanaian-born artist, and a fitting epitaph for the curator, Okwui Enwezor.Tags: Art, News, Munich, Sculpture, El, El Anatsui, Anatsui, Okwui, Enwezor 7 people like this. Like The Overdue Successes of Older Black ArtistsMarch 26, 2019 at 11:58 AM After decades of indifference from the art world, many African American artists in their 70s and 80s are finally garnering the attention, bidders, invitations to lectures, panels and shows—and, of course, income—they deserve. These overdue successes result in mixed reactions, and rightly so. Sculptor and teacher, Melvin Edwards says, “It’s about time the art world caught up.” While painter Howardena Pindell has “a different kind …Tags: Art, Design, Race, Painting, Culture, Sculpture, Galleries, Linkaboutit, Melvin Edwards, Howardena Pindell, African American Artists, Black Artists, Overdue Successes of Older Black Artists 44 people like this. Like |
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