ArtBabble: Sculpture

Floor

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:12:17 +0000

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Floor demonstrates many characteristic elements of Do-Ho Suh's broader body of work. The artist uses installations to integrate his artwork with the architecture of a gallery or public space. He has engaged the tensions between collective action and individual identity in other pieces, using his miniature figures to support a heavy stone pedestal or to form a tremendous screen with their interlocking bodies.

Monkey Remix

Chipstone — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:49:11 +0000

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Object Lab

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Chipstone

Object Lab 4.0's students were asked to create a video Remixing a work from Chipstone's collection. They had free range of the Chipstone Foundation's grounds and objects to illustrate new ways of understanding a historic ceramic. In this video, Adriana Vazquez, Lauren Applebaum and Morgan Anthony examine different contexts that affect the interpretations that can be gleaned from this 18th century ceramic monkey.

Choi Jeong Hwa's "Breathing Flower" Comes to Life in San Francisco

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:20 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

A time-lapse video of the installation of Choi Jeong Hwa's "Breathing Flower" in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza. On view during the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (May 18--September 2, 2012).

Robert Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:50:55 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

After a complete restoration of Robert Indiana's Numbers and many discussions with the artist, Richard McCoy, Conservator of Objects and Variable Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, shares insight to Indiana's symbolic use of color on the large sculptures.

You can see all 10 Numbers at the IMA's Alliance Sculpture Court.

Hiroshi Sugimoto on His "Five Elements" Series and Collecting Art

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:32:38 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

Hailed as one of the most important photographers of our time, New York-based Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is also an accomplished architect. He approaches his work from many different perspectives, with architecture as one component in designing the settings for his installations. As a photographer of the highest technical ability, with equal acclaim for the conceptual and philosophical aspects of his work, Sugimoto has created works in his "Five Elements" series that are constructed as shrines to a primordial birthplace.

Art of Another Kind: The Exhibition

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:36:31 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960
June 8–September 12, 2012

Art of Another Kind: Director James Johnson Sweeney's Legacy

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:35:52 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Since its beginnings as a private collection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection has evolved to reflect the dramatic shifts in art making over the past 150 years. Art of Another Kind curators Tracey Bashkoff and Megan Fontanella explain the collection’s history and the contrasting yet synchronous visions of former directors Hilla Rebay and James Johnson Sweeney in making the Guggenheim a repository for the art of our time.

Artist-in-Residence: Mathieu Grodet - March 2012

Corning Museum of Glass — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:17:22 +0000

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Corning Museum of Glass

Mathieu Grodet is a French-born artist living and working in Canada. He creates thin and elegant glass objects in classic Venetian style, engraved with imagery that addresses modern-day ideas and issues. In his March 2012 Residency at The Studio, Grodet used the Museum's Rakow Library to research forms and styles for vessels, as well as sketches for his final drawings on the vessels.

Numbers

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:55:18 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Richard McCoy, Conservator of Objects and Variable Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, discusses the restoration of Robert Indiana's /Numbers/, including completely refinishing the sculptures with the original coating system. You can see all 10 /Numbers/ at the IMA's Alliance Sculpture Court.

Jagannath Panda on "The Cult of Survival II"

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:47:41 +0000

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Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past

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Asian Art Museum

New Delhi-based artist Jagannath Panda lives in the burgeoning city of Gurgaon, which is one of India's major outsourcing hubs and bases of operation for global corporations. His works illustrate the city's tensions, as overdevelopment threatens natural habitats and infrastructures collapse before they are completed. Panda's mix of mythology and realism points to the evolving nature of Indian identity and experience today. His snake sculpture, "The Cult of Survival," is an expression of the danger in becoming addicted to the cycle of production and consumption in a rapidly changing world.