Category: Sculptural Things Blog

• Food (as) Sculpture

  29 January 2014

  thinking about the sculptural

  food, food sculpture, Sculpture, sculpture and food

  Happy New Year! Yes, January is already almost over, but I am finally feeling like I have emerged from the endless crush of projects that seem to pile up at the end of the semester/year and the haze that is the holiday season. In reflecting back on the last month, however, I could not help but…

• (The) Contemporary: Reflections on the 55th Venice Biennale

  4 December 2013

  exhibitions

  Encyclopedic Palace, Massimiliano Gioni, Sarah Sze, Terry Smith, the contemporary, Venice, Venice Biennale

  The 55th installment of the Venice Biennale has come to a close, ending yet another months-long, ever-expansive spectacle of contemporary art seen by 475,000 visitors, in a century’s old city that remains a spectacle in and of itself. The sheer scale and scope of the exhibition–this year comprised of a main exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni entitled The…

• An Indifferent Matter?

  31 October 2013

  exhibitions

  Andy Warhol, Art history, Asphalt Lump, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Henry Moore Institute, Peter Osborne, Robert Smithson, Sculpture, Silver Clouds

  This is a joint post by Dr. Lara Eggleton of Folly Matters and Dr. Marin R. Sullivan of Sculptural Things. In the wake of the de-installation of Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (25 July – 20 October 2013), two friends and art historians decided to co-write a blog based on our…

• Sculpture Matters: recent encounters with figuration, clay, and maverick makers

  15 October 2013

  thinking about the sculptural

  Arturo Martini, clay, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Lucio Fontana, Sculpture, Thomas Houseago

  Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred…

• If you like art, y’all really should get yourself to Dallas…

  25 September 2013

  exhibitions

  Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Klyde Warren Park, Museum Tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher XChange, public sculpture, Return to Earth, sculpture exhibitions

  I haven’t posted any new entries over the past couple of weeks on account of a busy travel schedule that took me to from Chicago to Louisville (for a very lovely non-sculpture, though hilariously art history-related wedding), then to Dallas (for a very lovely new exhibition on ceramic sculpture), back to Chicago for night, before…