As his newest sculptures fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Ghanaian artist is returning to his roots and thinking about his legacy.
Tag: Sculpture
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Fernando Botero, Artist of Whimsical Rotundity, Is Dead at 91
His voluptuous figures, in both paintings and sculpture, portrayed the high and mighty as well as everyday people through a magical-realist prism.
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Until 3183 A.D., The ‘Time Pyramid’ Is a Work in Progress
The “Time Pyramid” is being assembled slowly by the residents of a German town, who can scarcely imagine the world in which the artwork will be completed.
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Nairy Baghramian Breaks Through With Metropolitan Museum Facade Commission
With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
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Storied Dealer Irving Blum Curates Lichtenstein Show
Blum was the dealer who introduced the West Coast to Pop Art and Lichtenstein’s works in the 1960s. Now he’s showing his friend’s rarely seen sculptures.