“I can’t bear sculpture parks that are ‘shop and plonk,’” says Nicky Wilson, director and co-founder (with husband Robert Wilson) of Jupiter Artland, a 100-acre sculpture park in a rural setting just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. “It’s never successful shoving a piece of sculpture on a bit of grass and then saying it’s a well-installed work.”
Donum: Experiencing Sculpture, Wine, and Landscape
The extraordinary outdoor sculpture experience at the Donum Estate begins as soon as the gates swing open and you enter its 190 acres of vineyards, grassy hillsides, ponds, and woods.
Sweet Violence: A Conversation with Claire Lieberman
The American sculptor Claire Lieberman is well known for her installations in which she combines materials such as marble, Jell-O, and video. Her practice explores a range of dichotomies—for example, the dialectic between “the sublime and the quirky, desire and danger, indulgence and guilt,” as she points out.
Whitney Biennial 2022
NEW YORK Whitney Museum of American Art “Quiet as It’s Kept,” the 2022 Whitney Biennial, fills two floors—one dark and labyrinth-like; the other bright and open—with works that explore the fluid and experimental nature of current art practice.
Stand-Out Pavilions for Sculpture at the 59th Venice Biennale
After a year’s delay due to the Covid pandemic, the 59th Venice Biennale is a triumph for women artists, who heavily outnumber men in both Cecilia Alemani’s curated exhibition “The Milk of Dreams” and the national pavilion displays.
Marta Pérez García
WASHINGTON, DC The Phillips Collection INVISIBLE, SILENCIO, NO—these are the only words in Marta Pérez García’s poetic installation Restos-Traces. The ghostly assembly of 19 female torsos immediately strikes a nerve.
Rana Begum
LONDON Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery The central sculptural installation in the gallery, No. 1081 Mesh (2021), seems to billow under the domed glass ceiling, acting as a conduit between viewers and the outside world, filtering daylight from the window above and drawing attention to the colored glass.
Building Up Entanglements: A Conversation with Julia Crabtree and William Evans
For British duo Julia Crabtree and William Evans, sculpture and the sculptural experience are less about fixed forms than an irrepressible interest in materials and matter that might appear uneasy or ugly, that might crack under the weight of expectation.
Abdulrazaq Awofeso
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. Ikon Gallery Awofeso takes this blankly ubiquitous material—used for transporting goods around the globe—and imbues it with humanity and character, using a variety of display techniques to evoke the personal and the collective experience of human migration.
Ripple Effects: A Conversation with Angela Two Stars
Angela Two Stars is taking a stand about her Indigenous culture and using the Dakota language to do it. An enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (SWO)—a Dakota Plains tribe and part of the Oceti Sakowin Nation—she was born and raised on the Lake Traverse Reservation, located in South Dakota’s northeast corner.
