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Arlene Shechet’s sculptures are animated through dance at Storm King sculpture park

The Art Newspaper

JULY 28, 2024

Ritualistic performance piece by Annie-B Parson amid monumental, brightly coloured steel sculptures marks Upstate Art Weekend in New York’s Hudson Valley

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Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Gaetano Pesce’s new public sculpture enflames city councillors

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‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

The Art Newspaper

JULY 24, 2024

At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice

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An expert's guide to sculpture: five must-read books on the art of the three dimensional

The Art Newspaper

JULY 2, 2024

All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from the latest experimentations in contemporary art to some lesser-known Surrealist sculpture—selected by the head of the Henry Moore Institute, Laurence Sillars

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Metropolitan Museum will receive 14 ancient sculptures returned to Yemen

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

With Yemen still in the throes of a civil war, the ancient sculptures recently returned by a family in New Zealand will be kept in New York for study and cataloguing

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Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles

The Art Newspaper

MAY 23, 2024

In addition to the temporary sculpture park, Halsey will open a community centre in 2026 through her non-profit Summaeverythang

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I am Discosailing: Rasheed Araeen's water ballet comes to east London's outdoor sculpture trail, The Line

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 1, 2024

The artist's 1970s concept, brought to life in the Olympic Park, invites the public to perform as a floating sculpture moving with the wind and water

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The 15-ton itch: truce reached in battle over giant Marilyn Monroe sculpture in Palm Springs

The Art Newspaper

JULY 30, 2024

The city council has worked out a tentative agreement to move the lightning rod of a sculpture

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Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 10, 2024

The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations

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New sculptures by Indigenous artists unveiled at site of historic Canadian battlefield

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The permanent sculptures by Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart and Wendat Nation artist Ludovic Boney were unveiled in Québec City’s Cap Diamant on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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Medardo Rosso, an often overlooked artist who ‘revolutionised’ sculpture, gets his dues at Kunstmuseum Basel

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture offers a comprehensive survey of an artist whose influence is matched only by his remarkably persistent anonymity

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Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

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The US sculpture park communicating difficult truths amid a cultural backlash

The Art Newspaper

MAY 17, 2024

In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives

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Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

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Exploring the rise and fall of British architectural sculpture

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 4, 2024

A timely study examines the unique confluence of artists and architects in British buildings from the 1850s to the 1950s

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A journey through Frieze Sculpture with curator Fatos Üstek

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Frieze Sculpture curator walks us through her highlights from the gardens of London's Regents Park

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‘We want people to have fun’: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director on the institution’s new sculpture park

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 15, 2024

The London museum has embarked on a £5m redevelopment that will see its grounds filled with contemporary sculpture and versatile family spaces

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Submerged shipwreck sculpture on Miami beach confronts colonialism

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Nicholas Galanin’s work takes the form of a wrecked Spanish galleon, its sails emblazoned with questions the artist says are “a call to awareness and action”

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George Rickey sculpture partially collapses in Midtown Manhattan

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 15, 2024

One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside News Corp headquarters in New York

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Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Elizabeth Street Garden can stay open for two more weeks as volunteers try to prevent its demolition

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Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 20, 2024

After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle

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Neighbours fight to save Soho sculpture garden

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 30, 2024

The Elizabeth Street Garden, founded by a local gallerist more than 30 years ago, is scheduled to be demolished to make way for housing

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Artist's climate change sculpture near Salisbury Cathedral sparks criticism from residents

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 21, 2024

Hilary Jack says she hopes the controversy around her work, showing a house falling into the sea, will help bring attention to the issue of global warming

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American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work

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Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker take the 10gram sculpture challenge

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 21, 2024

42 artists have contributed to The Royal Society of Sculptors fundraising campaign

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‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna

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Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire

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Australian artist commissioned to make work using pure gold worth $6.7m

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Sculpture by Lindy Lee is part of a new arts programme developed by the precious metal services conglomerate Pallion Group

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Giant pigeon sculpture will land on the High Line this autumn

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 1, 2024

Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October

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Just Stop Oil protestors place high-vis jacket on ancient Greek statue at The British Museum

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The campaign group dressed up a sculpture of the goddess Demeter and added a speech bubble beside it reading “just stop famine”

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BBC unveils restored sculpture by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill

The Art Newspaper

APRIL 9, 2025

The statue, which has twice been vandalised in recent years, is now displayed in a glass case

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Florida man pleads guilty to bombing satirical statue of Lenin and Mao

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 5, 2024

A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party

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Yayoi Kusama’s boundless polka dot sculpture turns heads at London station

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 7, 2024

Mind-bending piece fills public space outside Liverpool Street interchange

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Barbara Hepworth sculpture rediscovered in UK school headmaster’s office to be auctioned

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 15, 2025

Proceeds from the sale of the polished bronze workthe identity of was lost to time after it was bequeathed in the 1960swill go towards student bursaries

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Urs Fischer: ‘I don’t fear anything when I make my large sculptures’

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 12, 2024

The imposing works by an artist who is not afraid to think big are brought together in a new book launched this week at Art Basel

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Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo win £73,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, covers five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

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‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work

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Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This could be the beginning of the end for the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden

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Public sculpture destroyed in apparent arson attack in Toronto

The Art Newspaper

APRIL 7, 2025

The public art piece in the shape of a canoe, by Douglas Coupland, was a tribute to the famed Group of Seven painter Tom Thomson

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Stolen, century-old train-shaped weathervane returned to authorities in Vermont

The Art Newspaper

MAY 22, 2024

The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983

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Noguchi and Marisol sculptures lead sale of storied Abrams family collection

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 27, 2024

Works owned by the founders of art-book publisher Abbeville Press could make up to $16m at Sotheby’s

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Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams wins Canada’s top art prize

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Montréal-based artist, known for his intricate sculptural beadwork, received the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award for 2024

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Camille Claudel sculpture discovered in abandoned Paris apartment

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The bronze is now expected to sell for up to 2m when it is auctioned in Orlans in February

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Fit for a king: Egyptian museum in Turin unveils new galleries for monumental ancient sculptures

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The dramatic revamp of the Gallery of the Kings is part of a broader renovation that is due to complete in 2025

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Arlene Shechet’s sculptures are animated through dance at Storm King sculpture park

Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate

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‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

An expert's guide to sculpture: five must-read books on the art of the three dimensional

Metropolitan Museum will receive 14 ancient sculptures returned to Yemen

Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles

I am Discosailing: Rasheed Araeen's water ballet comes to east London's outdoor sculpture trail, The Line

The 15-ton itch: truce reached in battle over giant Marilyn Monroe sculpture in Palm Springs

Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work

New sculptures by Indigenous artists unveiled at site of historic Canadian battlefield

Medardo Rosso, an often overlooked artist who ‘revolutionised’ sculpture, gets his dues at Kunstmuseum Basel

Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The US sculpture park communicating difficult truths amid a cultural backlash

Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

Exploring the rise and fall of British architectural sculpture

A journey through Frieze Sculpture with curator Fatos Üstek

‘We want people to have fun’: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director on the institution’s new sculpture park

Submerged shipwreck sculpture on Miami beach confronts colonialism

George Rickey sculpture partially collapses in Midtown Manhattan

Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden

Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture

Neighbours fight to save Soho sculpture garden

Artist's climate change sculpture near Salisbury Cathedral sparks criticism from residents

American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast

Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker take the 10gram sculpture challenge

‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more

Australian artist commissioned to make work using pure gold worth $6.7m

Giant pigeon sculpture will land on the High Line this autumn

Just Stop Oil protestors place high-vis jacket on ancient Greek statue at The British Museum

BBC unveils restored sculpture by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill

Florida man pleads guilty to bombing satirical statue of Lenin and Mao

Yayoi Kusama’s boundless polka dot sculpture turns heads at London station

Barbara Hepworth sculpture rediscovered in UK school headmaster’s office to be auctioned

Urs Fischer: ‘I don’t fear anything when I make my large sculptures’

Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo win £73,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe

Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

Public sculpture destroyed in apparent arson attack in Toronto

Stolen, century-old train-shaped weathervane returned to authorities in Vermont

Noguchi and Marisol sculptures lead sale of storied Abrams family collection

Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams wins Canada’s top art prize

Camille Claudel sculpture discovered in abandoned Paris apartment

Fit for a king: Egyptian museum in Turin unveils new galleries for monumental ancient sculptures

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