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article news schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

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The UK government has finalized design plans for a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London’s St James’s Park. A team led by architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, including British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, will create a natural stone path connecting royal gardens, a translucent cast-glass balustrade on the Blue Bridge inspired by the Queen’s wedding tiara, and figurative sculptures of the Queen and Prince Philip. Landscape designer Michael Desvigne is also part of the team, working with the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee. The final design will be announced in April 2026, coinciding with what would have been the Queen’s 100th birthday, with a budget of £23 to £46 million from public funds.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 32 link 10 artists

A Landmark Calder Exhibition with Over 300 of His Revolutionary Works Goes on View in Paris

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has launched "Calder: rêver en équilibre," a massive retrospective featuring over 300 works by the American modernist Alexander Calder. The exhibition spans the artist's entire career, from his early engineering-influenced "Circus" performances and hand-wrought jewelry to his iconic suspended mobiles and monumental outdoor sculptures. Notably, the show marks the first time the Frank Gehry-designed institution has installed artworks on its exterior lawns, creating a dialogue between Calder’s geometric forms and the building's avant-garde architecture.

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article news schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

A team led by architect Norman Foster and British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has won the competition to design a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park, London. The winning proposal includes a series of royal gardens linked by a stone path, a new bridge inspired by the Queen Mary fringe tiara, and Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture as a contemplative centerpiece. The project also features figurative sculptures of the Queen and Prince Philip, a Prince Philip gate, and a main monument beside the Mall. The design will be developed with the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, which will select a sculptor for the figurative elements later this year; the final design is due in April 2026, with a provisional budget of £23m–£46m.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 28, 2026 visibility 20 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

In Pictures: sculpture gets a leg up at Frieze Los Angeles

Frieze Los Angeles 2025 is showcasing a diverse array of sculptural works that emphasize tactile materials and bodily forms. Highlights from the fair include Vincent Pocsik’s architectural mirrors at Nazarian Curcio, Shana Hoehn’s public installation featuring human limbs emerging from a fallen tree, and Alejandro García Contreras’s intricate ceramic spiderwebs. The presentation underscores a trend toward figurative sculpture that blends personal symbolism with physical presence, with several works already finding buyers among notable collectors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 15, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists

nickola pottinger fos born aldrich contemporary art museum

Nickola Pottinger's first solo museum exhibition, "fos born," is on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum through January 11. The show was deeply influenced by her pregnancy with her daughter Zora, which she discovered shortly after securing the exhibition. Pottinger's work has evolved from paper pulp wall reliefs into figurative sculptures that incorporate Jamaican folklore, family history, and personal artifacts, such as a cast of her pregnant torso and hair clips from her childhood. Her husband, fellow artist Zahar Vaks, assisted in creating the silicone mold for one piece moments before she went into labor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 29, 2026 visibility 10 link 4 artists

Sharif Bey's “Autoethnography” to open at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum

The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum will present "Autoethnography," a solo exhibition by artist Sharif Bey, from February 12 to July 19. The show features a comprehensive range of Bey's work, from functional pottery to figurative sculptures, shields, and large-scale necklaces, tracing the evolution of his practice.

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Stephan Balkenhol New Bronze Sculptures 2026 - Man in a White

German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol has unveiled two new hand-painted bronze editions, "Man in a White Shirt and Black Pants 2026" and "Venus 2026." Released in editions of 30 and standing 68 cm tall, the works are being showcased and sold through Frank Fluegel Galerie across its Nuremberg and Kitzbühel locations. The release coincides with the artist's participation in the Art Cologne Palma de Mallorca Fair and precedes his 70th birthday in 2027.

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article news schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

Work in progress: Martin Jennings chosen to create statue of Queen Elizabeth II

The UK government has selected sculptor Martin Jennings to create a statue of Queen Elizabeth II for St James’s Park in London, as part of a larger memorial designed by Norman Foster's architecture firm. The memorial will also include a figurative sculpture of the Queen alongside Prince Philip at Birdcage Walk and a Prince Philip gate. Jennings, known for his bust of the Queen Mother and his coin effigy of King Charles III, describes the project as a work in progress, with a provisional construction budget of £23m–£46m. Final design details are expected next year.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 2, 2026 visibility 9 link 2 artists

AN INSIDE JOB: Clymer Museum of Art reopens after renovations with show by CWU student

The Clymer Museum of Art in Ellensburg reopened on Friday after renovations, featuring a new exhibition titled "Plastic Souls" by Margot Massey, a junior at Central Washington University pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The show explores themes of artificiality and performance in social media, with paintings depicting actors, cowboys, showgirls, and rodeo clowns, and will later include two life-size figurative sculptures. The museum closed in January for renovations, which expanded wall space by roughly 30% and created a new gallery near the entrance for rotating student exhibitions.

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rate_review review schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 11 link 3 artists

Beyond the body: Jess Self’s emotive power at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art

Jess Self, a Decatur-based sculptor and educator, presents *Celestial Perspectives* at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, an immersive textile environment that explores autobiography through figurative form. The exhibition features works in resin, plaster, felted wool, fiber, and rope, including the large-scale installation *The Veil* and the compelling *She Who Ties Magic Knots*, a resin and plaster cast of the artist's pregnant torso. Self's practice draws on Jungian archetypes and spiritual traditions, and the show communicates themes of connectivity, motherhood, bodily experience, and transcendence without relying on wall text.

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article news schedule Mar 19, 2026 visibility 18

Restrained Emotions Simmer in Shinsuke Inoue’s Tender Wood Sculptures

Japanese artist Shinsuke Inoue creates small, emotionally resonant wood sculptures of human figures. His practice began about ten years ago when he carved a likeness of his child, sparking a dedicated focus on figurative woodcarving that captures universal human essence rather than specific portraits.

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