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26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture Park
The artist’s bronze "Amalgam (Origin)" will join works by the likes of Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
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Art
Nick Cave’s Eternal Garden
In his new work, the artist emerges from his aesthetic camouflage into a more complicated space of visibility that probes relationships of power and image.
Podcast
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
Hrag Vartanian interviews the artist in his Chicago studio about his childhood, his evolving craft, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.
Art
The Joyous Kitsch and Lingering Simmer of Nick Cave's Art
With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity.
Art
In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology
The exhibition includes paintings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, along with contemporary works focusing on habitat protection and environmental sustainability.
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Nick Cave’s “Truth Be Told” Cannot Be Censored, Says Kinderhook Zoning Board in Unanimous Vote
After a months-long dispute, the 160-foot artwork was recently removed from Jack Shainman Gallery's upstate outpost, but a recent vote ruled that Cave's message was "a political message and art" and therefore protected by the First Amendment.
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When Nick Cave’s Truth Was Told in Kinderhook, New York
A local zoning appeals board hearing will soon decide whether Cave’s colossal textual work, “Truth Be Told,” is art protected by the First Amendment, or rather a sign that may be regulated by law.
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The High Line Wants You to Weigh in on Its Next Public Sculptures
From playful to political, there are 80 options by artists including Nick Cave, Mona Hatoum, and Wang Sishun.
Art
Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
Interview
Artist Nick Cave Talks About Surrendering to the Sacred
Hyperallergic spoke with Cave about what it means to surrender to the sacred, and how a queer perspective brings liberation and a way of seeing and being in an at-times seemingly disconnected world.
Art
A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge
At museum-hotel chain 21c's new Kansas City location, an art exhibit reflects on immigration and refuge.
In Brief
Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works
The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the "largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent" to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.