Art
Gormley and Rodin Go Head to Head
In Antony Gormley’s Critical Mass at the Musée Rodin, the dialogue between the artists becomes a devastating boxing match in which Rodin delivers a knockout every time.
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Books
Does Anyone Believe in Sculpture?
In "Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now," the issue crying out to be addressed is: where will sculpture go next?
Art
Antony Gormley Explores the Body as a Space Within a Space
This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.
Art
The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
In Brief
A Greek Island Will Get Its First Contemporary Artwork in 5,000 Years
British artist Antony Gormley is the first to present new works on the island, a UNESCO world heritage monument and important site in Greek mythology, since was inhabited.
Art
Figures of Steel that Embody Our Fears
Antony Gormley has consistently plied a practice that's about articulations and permutations of the human body, often fabricating his forms in materials that can withstand the vicissitudes of the natural environmental.
Art
Tracing the Legacies of Postwar UK’s Lost and Damaged Public Artworks
Last December, after cultural preservationists in England realized that many of the nation's postwar public sculpture have disappeared from the landscape over a number of decades, they issued a public call to attempt to trace or even recover them.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
Art
How Artists Can Help Us Conceive of New Flags and Monuments for the US
All flags bear the stain of conquest.
News
Rooftop Sculpture Installation Canceled After Suicide
When Antony Gormley's "Event Horizon," a series of 30 life-size fiberglass sculptures cast from the artist's body, were first installed on rooftops around the city of London in 2007, people mistook them for suicide jumpers and called the police. Now, a presentation of "Event Horizon" in Hong Kong ha
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Where Do Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds Begin and End?
BERKELEY, California — At Haines Gallery in San Francisco’s Financial District, I finally got to see Ai Weiwei’s notorious “Kui Hua Zi” (Sunflower Seeds). There has been much hype around Ai Weiwei and this particular installation, and seeing it caught me by surprise. The Haines Gallery installation
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Sculpture is Dead: Art, Not Suicide (Part 3/3)
One of the definitions given by the OED for sculpture is, “as a type of silence or absence of movement of feeling.” After 700 hours of sitting ‘still as a statue’ and silently engaging a series of 1400+ visitors at MoMA, Abramović has completed what is being hailed the longest work of performance ar