sculpture

Acquisitions round-up: European museums co-purchase El Anatsui sculpture from collector Uli Sigg

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt…

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Kapwani Kiwanga Explores the Links Between Nature, Technology, and Racial Oppression

By Glenn Adamson July 30, 2020 3:23pm “I’m very reluctant to talk about what’s happening now—the hot topic, the outrage of the moment. It seems necessary to ask: how did we get here?” The speaker, artist Kapwani Kiwanga, was in Paris; I was in New York. We did not dwell much, during that May 27 phone conversation,…

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Nicolas Holiber: Birds on Broadway ~ Audubon Sculpture Project NYC

by AFineLyne on March 17, 2020 Broadway Malls, Upper West Side, Audubon Sculpture Project, Birds on Broadway, Nicolas Holibe The National Audubon Society, Gitler &___ , New York City Parks Department,  NYC Audubon and the Broadway Mall Association have a very special installation scheduled for May 17, 2019. Ten sculptures in reclaimed wood to call attention to New York City’s climate threatened birds. We’ve…

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