While hundreds of museums and galleries across the country and around the world are currently closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a number of sculpture parks, gardens, and arboretums remain open to visitors, offering valuable spaces to connect with art and the outdoors.
Elyn Zimmerman’s MARABAR Facing Demolition
In 1977, Elyn Zimmerman made her first trip to India. Inspired by her experience of historical and sacred sites there, she began to consider how to create similarly meaningful contemporary public spaces back in the U.S.
Video: Tour Allan McCollum’s Survey Exhibition at ICA Miami
“Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969” is American conceptual artist Allan McCollum’s first museum retrospective in the U.S. The exhibition, curated by ICA Miami Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld and Associate Curator Stephanie Seidel, spans McCollum’s artistic output over the past 50 years and brings together more than 20 series across a range of media.
Video: Celebrating the Work of Alan Constable
Alan Constable’s singular sculptures of cameras, telescopes, projectors, and binoculars are imbued with a heightened tactility and inner life. Legally blind and deaf, Constable began constructing replicas of cameras from cereal cartons and glue at the age of eight.
What Do We Really Want from War Memorials?
As we struggle to determine the future of Confederate monuments, we might do well to step back and ask a broader question: “What do we really want from war memorials?” I decided to explore that question by visiting five well-known war memorials in Washington, DC, to consider their social functions and artistic qualities.
Nick Hornby in Harlow, U.K.
Nick Hornby’s largest sculpture to date is unveiled this month in Harlow, U.K. The town’s historical collection includes works by Auguste Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Elizabeth Frink, among many others, so is a fitting environment for an artist whose subject is frequently the canon and its construction.
Alexandra Fairweather on John Chamberlain’s “Baby Tycoons”
“Baby Tycoons,” an exhibition of John Chamberlain’s small, tabletop sculptures, is on view at Hauser & Wirth through October 19. The first exhibition of Chamberlain’s work since the gallery took over representation of the John Chamberlain Estate in May 2019, it is installed in the gallery’s 69th Street space.
What To See in New York This September
Sculpture exhibitions opening in the city this month.
Lawrence Weiner at The FLAG Art Foundation
Artist Lawrence Weiner talks with Glenn Fuhrman, Founder of The FLAG Art Foundation, about his art, the kindness of strangers, changing the world through culture, and more. In conjunction with the exhibition “ON BOARD THE SHIPS AT SEA ARE WE: Robert Therrien, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whitehead” and the launch of FLAG’s 10th Anniversary Book, The
Must-See Sculpture Park Shows: Part 2
A round-up of the best sculpture park and garden exhibitions of the season, continued.
