Category: Sculptural Things Blog
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Painting is something I rarely think about, or rather is an area of art production that I admire from a distance; having little interest in the issues that most commonly dominate its discussion – image, representation, flatness, etc. This is a gross oversimplification and no doubt a sign of medium narrow-mindedness on my part, but…
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I promise this is not a blog solely about public sculpture, though I do find it interesting that I both feel the need to express that caveat and have been thinking about ‘public things’ a lot lately. Once you start looking for them, you realize these encumbered objects are everywhere, and while they take on…
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“Historically, the monument–as distinguished from all other things that are present–was supposed to endure for all time.”¹ The monument, here used in relation to public sculpture, is a particular kind of thing. By virtue of its placement in an open, accessible location, it reaches a wide audience and because of this reach is often understood…
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Just a quick post about a really fantastic and very public project on public sculpture. The International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art – North America (INCCA-NA) teamed up with Wikipedia’s WikiProject Public Art in August 2012 to launch the Artist Research Project, selecting the American sculptor Tony Smith as the inaugural artist. The…
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In an interview with Phyllis Tuchman in 1970, the American sculptor Carl Andre remarked: “My art springs from my desire to have things in the world that would otherwise never be there. By nature, I am a materialist, and admirer of Lucretius…. The sense of one’s being in the world is confirmed by the existence…
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