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Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) and American artist Phillip K. Smith III have collaborated to create a site-specific installation that literally mirrors life. Commissioned by art collector Dallas Price and her husband, sculptor Bob Van Breda, Santa Monica Linear is a horizontal line of... View full entry
A new examination of Frank Gehry’s sculptural work is swimming into Los Angeles this summer. Spinning Tales will showcase new and old pieces from the architect at the Gagosian Gallery. Gehry has been very active in the art world recently, using this latest show to piggyback off of the... View full entry
A settlement has been reached in the strange case of a homeowner who fought her California town to keep a famous Flintstones motif installed. The curious legal dispute has kept the Bay Area suburb in the headlines for the past two and a half years. Florence Fang will receive $125,000 from the... View full entry
Originally planned for spring 2020, L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped was delayed due to the pandemic. It will enrobe the Champs-Élysées landmark in almost 25,000 sq. m of silvery blue fabric, made of recyclable polypropylene, and 7,000 metres of red rope. — The Art Newspaper
Following the pandemic-forced cancellation of the original spring 2020 event and the death of the co-creator Christo in June of that same year, the monumental, temporary work of art L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped has been revived to be on view after all, from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October... View full entry
Across New York City’s five boroughs, five new public art installations are on display, each made from salvaged plywood boards that were used for a much different purpose a year ago. Be Heard by Behin Ha Design Studio. Be Heard by Behin Ha Design Studio. The sculptural pieces were... View full entry
Landscape architecture firm SWA Group has completed all of the ground level work including several sculptural pieces for Jianhua Plaza in Guangzhou, China. The Plaza's 1.4-hectare landscape was developed as part of the Baiyun New City Plan. SWA's landscape concept focused on developing a robust... View full entry
A curving masonry block wall created by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora currently graces the rooftop terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which recently re-opened to the public after several months of COVID-19-related closures. The installation is built from... View full entry
Urban design and architectural practice Gómez Platero had unveiled designs for the world's first large-scale memorial to the victims of COVID-19, due to reside on the edge of a section of urban waterfront in Uruguay. Dubbed the "World Memorial to the Pandemic,"the monument will be an... View full entry
Edoardo Tresoldi has unveiled Opera, his new public art permanent installation on Reggio Clabria's seafront in Italy. Construction began this month, and it is due to open in September of this year. The structure consists of a colonnade of 46 pillars peaking at 8 meters at their highest... View full entry
The new sculpture, called Obolin, uses cross laminated timber (CLT) to create three cutouts subtracted from a spherical geometry to mark the location of the sun's vector based on its Hudson Valley location at noon on the Summer and Winter Solstices, and at 2:00pm on the Equinox. Obolin was... View full entry
New York City based design practice MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY is currently seeking an Architectural Designer and Grasshopper Wizard responsible for generating, developing and delivering innovative design proposals and following them from concept through construction. Could this be you? The... View full entry
Over the holiday weekend, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new "National Garden of American Heroes" that will contain statues depicting "historically significant Americans" and other historical figures like Christopher Columbus. The order comes as protest movements and... View full entry
The artist Christo, who with his late wife and partner Jeanne-Claude was known for his monumental, often whimsical interventions on architecture and landscape, has died, aged 84. The artist’s studio confirmed on Twitter that he died at his home in New York [...] — The Art Newspaper
Due to the scale and spatial nature of their art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have made frequent appearances in the Archinect news over the years. Recently on Archinect: Christo comes to Paris in 2020 to wrap the Arc de Triomphe View full entry
The Museum of Modern Art collects and prizes the sculpture and designs of Isamu Noguchi, a towering figure in 20th-century American art. But just across West 53rd Street, the developer of 666 Fifth Avenue, Brookfield Properties, is planning the opposite: dismantling one of Noguchi’s largest sculptural installations, one that he called “a landscape of clouds” that he designed in 1957 in the skyscraper’s twin lobbies. — The New York Times
Writing in The New York Times, Joseph Giovannini looks into the uncertain fate facing a "landscape of clouds" designed by noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi for the lobby of a 41-story skyscraper that is undergoing a renovation from Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Preservation groups, including... View full entry
At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland unveiled bronze statues of famed abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass during a ceremony Monday night in the Maryland State House.
The life-sized statues were dedicated during a special joint session of the Maryland General Assembly in the Old House Chamber, the room where slavery was abolished in the state in 1864.
— ABC News
According to ABC News, the statues were dedicated during Black History Month and have been made to show Tubman and Douglass as they would have appeared in age and dress in 1864. Harriet Tubman. Photo by Danielle E. Gaines. Via marylandmatters.org "A mark of true greatness is shining light on a... View full entry