Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, Telford, U.K., April 5–9, 2006 From the speculative and visionary to the practical and applied, artists today use a wide variety of processes in their work. Cast iron embraces all of these diverse approaches to the practice of contemporary sculpture.
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Naked and Nude Out in the World and in the Art School Curriculum
As old as art itself, the nude is still capable of giving viewers a jolt. The current governor of Vermont, James Richards, recently found it necessary to remove a lamp from his statehouse desk because it reproduced Hiram Power’s famous 1843 sculpture “The Greek Slave.”
The Artist Pension Trust
The first year of the Artist Pension Trust has resulted in the collection of approximately 65 artworks by 50 fine artists in the New York branch and the expansion of the trust’s program to Los Angeles and London (England), with other regions in Asia, Europe, and South America in the works, according to David Ross,
Words Imagined: Cerith Wyn Evans
“I have bags full of bits of paper. I have boxes of telegraph keys. To be too organized would not be a participating artist.” Such is Cerith Wyn Evans’s explanation of where his ideas come from, and in its way it is a complete and accurate explanation.
Benefits and Risks of Selling Artwork On-line
During the summer of 2003, “lightning struck” for Houston, Texas, artist Douglas Hamilton-not literally, but perhaps just as randomly. One of his paintings, Sydney II, was bought from the Internet site ArtQuest (www.ArtQuest.com), which features the work of 500-plus artists.
Photographs of Public Artworks by Anish Kapoor and Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Copyright Infringement?
Over the past 30-plus years of the public art movement, artworks in public settings have added beauty, interest and, in some instances, controversy to the civic arena. For photographers and plein air painters, however, they may also be adding the threat of a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia Within Without: Elisabeth Weissensteiner Chapman & Bailey Gallery
“Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.” * Spiked Egg , 2003. Transparent paper, packing tape, and pins. 25 cm. long. Elisabeth Weissensteiner’s sculpture describes the body’s seemingly parallel universes of inside and outside. The very act of viewing her sculpted skins is a process that describes the forms’ oscillation between fragile beauty and something more
Careers: Artists as Directors and Curators of Art Spaces, College Galleries, and Museums
Most artists don’t know what kind of career they will have, or if they will even have a career, but sculptor Jock Reynolds knew he was making a career-changing decision in 1983 when he took over the directorship of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), a nonprofit multi-disciplinary art space in the District of
Bristol-Myers Squibb Sculpture Project
Those who read the finance and science pages of their newspapers know that Bristol-Myers Squibb defines itself as “a global pharmaceutical and related health care products company whose mission is to extend and enhance human life.” Traditionally,
“Presence of Light”
Beth Galston, Ice Forest, 2000-2003. Urethane resin and monofilament, 8 x 8 x 4 ft. In the early 1960s sculpture went electric. Dan Flavin’s assemblages of linear fluorescent light tubes, arranged as pillars or box constructions, transformed the medium of sculpture from mass into luminescence, competing with painting’s ability to model light with color.
