Sculpture
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At home with artist Joana Vasconcelos
Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We sat down (via Zoom) with the Lisbon-based artist to discuss David Bowie, the perils of wearing corsets and her much-anticipated Wedding Cake installation for Waddesdon Manor
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Haegue Yang’s fantastic beasts descend on Tate St Ives
The South Korean artist dazzles Tate St Ives visitors with otherworldly robotic creatures and tributes to 20th century art greats in a show of perfect chaos
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Glass act: a Venice exhibition reveals a never before seen side of Ettore Sottsass
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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‘Mother!’: artists interpret the many facets of motherhood in Denmark show
Fertility, sacrifice and surveillance are just some themes examined in the group show ‘Mother!’, at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, coinciding with Mother’s Day 2021
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Pakui Hardware’s visceral sculptures dissect the future of virtual healthcare
At the Baltic Centre for Contemporary art, Lithuanian artist duo Pakui Hardware examine timely themes of robotic and virtual healthcare in an uncanny new installation
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Cristina Iglesias turns derelict lighthouse into staggering geological sculpture
Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has transformed a lighthouse on Donostia-San Sebastián’s Santa Clara Island into a kinetic water sculpture
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Annie Morris strikes a fine balance between sculpture, tapestry and drawing
The interdisciplinary exhibition in New York is her first with Timothy Taylor, who recently began to represent the artist
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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Nathalie Du Pasquier’s ode to the humble brick
A site-specific installation at ceramic brand Mutina’s Italian HQ has stacks of appeal
By Marco Sammicheli • Last updated
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Qatar transforms into a museum of public art ahead of 2022 FIFA World Cup
As anticipation builds in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November, Qatar Museums has expanded its public art programme with 40 new works by the likes of Jeff Koons, Ugo Rondinone, Yayoi Kusama, Katharina Fritsch, Shilpa Gupta and Shouq Al Mana
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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To infinity and beyond: Eyal Gever to launch the first sculpture in space
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Tomás Saraceno’s aerosolar collaboration with Ruinart takes flight
In the skies above Maison Ruinart, Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene project is imagining a world beyond the fossil fuel era. Wallpaper* Paris editor Amy Serafin was in Reims to witness the events first hand – a blend of performance, sculpture, augmented reality, and champagne
By Amy Serafin • Last updated
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How a hashtag caused a surge of optimism for artists on Instagram
The #artistsupportpledge movement was created just two weeks ago but has since helped thousands of artists to sell their work in a landscape of instability. Here's how it happened, and why it might be here to stay
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Ian Collings’ sculptural debut
At Casa Perfect, LA, artist and designer Ian Collings unveils a new series of delicate stone sculptures which offer a window into our planet’s history
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Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office’s timber pavilion celebrates Indigenous histories
A sobering monument to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, In Absence is a collaboration between the contemporary artist and Melbourne-based studio for the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission
By Dimity Noble • Last updated
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Studio Swine launches living and breathing scientific sculpture at Eden Project
By Becky Sunshine • Last updated
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Sabine Marcelis wins Wallpaper* Designer of the Year 2020
Between fountains for Fendi, donut-shaped rugs, and a takeover of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, Dutch-Kiwi designer Sabine Marcelis has widened the spectrum of what light, glass and resin can do
By Rab Messina • Last updated
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Gillian Wearing keeps it in the family at Copenhagen’s National Gallery
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Prosthetics and sculpture: art meets medicine at the Henry Moore Institute
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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Exhibition review: Damien Hirst’s greatest hits in formaldehyde
‘Natural History’ at Gagosian Britannia Street, London is the first-ever show dedicated to Damien Hirst’s iconic formaldehyde sculptures. Chopped-up sharks, flayed innards, six-limbed cows – why do we keep returning for another slice?
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In memoriam: Claude Lalanne (1924-2019)
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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Step inside Chiharu Shiota’s doll’s house
In ‘Living Inside’ at Galerie Templon, Brussels, the Japanese artist cocoons dolls houses and miniature furniture in her signature thread
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Isamu Noguchi's unrealised playground design revealed in New York
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‘I just didn’t fit’: feminist icon Judy Chicago on revolutionising art history
At the de Young Museum, San Francisco, American feminist artist Judy Chicago staged her first ever retrospective. We spoke to the artist about her epic career, filled with patriarchal battles, fierce self-belief, and a lot of smoke
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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Body talk: YBA Sarah Lucas meets modern master Auguste Rodin
By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated
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‘Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra’: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Nigerian-American artist Dozie Kanu on disrupting the norm
With an exhibition at Galeria Madragoa in Lisbon, Dozie Kanu talks discarded objects, disorderly design and architectural ambition in an interview
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