Opinion
While learning more about public art, I began to notice a startling trend; it appears that the public possesses an odd affinity toward public works. Aside from the common images of the Statue of Liberty or the popular monuments in Washington, DC, I found image after image of art lovers groping, hump
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BBC reported this morning that a sculpture by sculptor Barbara Hepworth has been stolen in South London. Scrap metal thieves are suspected to be behind the theft, indicative of a growing problem with scrap metal theft in the UK. The bronze sculpture, titled "Two Form (Divided Circle)" from 1969, was
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It's the centennial of the birth of the 40th US President, Ronald Reagan, and coast to coast statues of the Old Gipper are making news but for very different reasons.
Opinion
Mark di Suvero's "Joie de Vivre" has inadvertently found itself in the middle of the biggest protest movement in America today and not everyone likes it. Now a small spat on on the sculpture itself raises some questions.
Opinion
Liza Eliano and I stopped by Occupy Wall Street yesterday and we picked up a copy of the first edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. A four-page broadsheet, the back had a funny map marking that made us laugh out loud. "Art / Signs" are marked with a ♥ but Abstract Expressionist sculptor Mark
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The City of Brotherly Love must love supersized objects because they now have a fourth large-scale art work by Pop art master Claes Oldenburg.
Opinion
What role can/ should street art play in a broader program of national memorials and monuments. Can we as a public take these kinds of installations seriously, or will the intent of the artist always be suspect?
Art
Waterfalls now cascade and soothe at Ground Zero. Actually, the word “ground zero” may soon wither into an anachronism because the new memorial is a stunning work of art in its own right.
Art
On March 24, 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa, a mammoth sculpture of legendary former president and icon Nelson Mandela was unveiled. Over 15 feet tall, this sculpture was commissioned to stand in the center of Nelson Mandela square in Sandton City, an upscale shopping mall in a well-to-do part o
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Washington, DC — “Dub poet Mutabaruka found it necessary to argue, in a public contribution on the subject, that the statue [Emancipation Monument], which represents a woman and a man, both nude standing in a pool of water and looking upward as a symbolic representation of the spiritual emancipation
Opinion
A new Marilyn Monroe sculpture went up in Chicago but homegrown reaction to the sculpture has been "almost uniformly negative" … though you wouldn't know if you were checking Flickr.
Art
Mad Homes is a fascinating lo-fi community approach to public installation. A local nonprofit, Mad Art, invited 14 artists to create interventions in homes that are soon to be demolished in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The result is a mixture of installations that consume, infiltrate and sur