Sculpture

Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire

Catching clouds: Rana Begum creates new work for bank's 40,000-strong art collection

UBS Art Collection commissioned No. 1238 Mesh for the company’s London headquarters

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The beautiful game? Untangling the tricky relationship between art and football

The sport has a rich historical connection to visual culture but a new trend to immortalise the living presents interesting challenges

American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work

Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

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Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate

Gaetano Pesce’s new public sculpture enflames city councillors

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A new monograph highlights Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody as one of Britain's most important Modernists

Moody defied family expectations to pursue his art, and is now celebrated in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield

A journey through Frieze Sculpture with curator Fatos Üstek

The Frieze Sculpture curator walks us through her highlights from the gardens of London's Regents Park

Podcast | A brush with… Rana Begum

An in-depth interview with sculptor and painter Rana Begum, exploring her experiences with the Qur’an, J.M.W. Turner and negotiating the London cityscape

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500

The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it

Australian artist commissioned to make work using pure gold worth $6.7m

Sculpture by Lindy Lee is part of a new arts programme developed by the precious metal services conglomerate Pallion Group

Revamped Wiener Holocaust Library to reopen with exhibition on celebrated Jewish sculptor

The library, which houses the world’s oldest collection of archival material on the Nazi era, will present works by Fred Kormis in a newly renovated exhibition space

Zagreb collective WHW named creative directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster

The three curators, Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, were selected by a seven-member committee to lead the 2027 edition, which marks the event’s 50th anniversary

‘We want people to have fun’: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director on the institution’s new sculpture park

The London museum has embarked on a £5m redevelopment that will see its grounds filled with contemporary sculpture and versatile family spaces

Booksreview

Although it is a ‘sumptuous’ tome, this survey of contemporary public art from around the world baffles at times

The self-proclaimed atlas gives voice to works from often overlooked global-majority cultures but tends to favour mainstream over more challenging works

‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice

An expert's guide to sculpture: five must-read books on the art of the three dimensional

All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from the latest experimentations in contemporary art to some lesser-known Surrealist sculpture—selected by the head of the Henry Moore Institute, Laurence Sillars

The Week in Art podcast | Just Stop Oil’s latest protests, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese

Is the climate activist group’s campaign proving a success? Plus, Bahamian-born, US-based Strachan on his new Hayward show and a close look at a hanging bronze by Bourgeois

In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited is all about the human touch

Giovanni Carmine, the curator of the fair's section dedicated to monumental works, shares some of his favourites

Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman, three artists who ‘redefined sculpture’, to be shown together for first time in London

Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the “correspondence or unity of material among the three of them,” says its curator

Eduardo Chillida show shines a light on lesser-known works inspired by summer holidays in Menorca

The Hauser & Wirth exhibition of "lighter" pieces by the Basque artist—best known for his huge steel sculptures—commemorates his centenary

Italy's statues have a gender bias, new research reveals

Public portrayals of female figures are not only rare, they are often sexualised stereotypes

Frieze New York's animal art gives fairgoers paws for thought

From fabulous fish to playful pups, The Shed in Chelsea is crawling with wildlife

New York show celebrates the inner lives of Toshiko Takaezu’s ceramics

The Hawaiian artist’s retrospective at the Noguchi Museum takes a multi-sensory approach to her singular sculptures

Less is more? Show of miniature sculptures by 20th century titan Henry Moore to open in Bath

The exhibition at the Holburne Museum will look at how the artist known for his grand public sculptures also worked on a much smaller scale

The outdoor art not to miss in Manhattan during Frieze New York

From The High Line to Marcus Garvey Park, the borough is buzzing with exciting public works

Gallery devoted to customs officer-turned-artist George Wyllie opens in Scotland

The Wyllieum is part of a new cruise ship visitor centre in Greenock

Velázquez-inspired sculptures spark outrage in Venice

Local heritage group decries the "biennialisation of the city" after gallery paid a fee to stage the Manolo Valdés installation

'I am looking forward to works that resonate with the concept of blackness': Wu Tiejun on his hopes for Art Basel Hong Kong

The founder of Nanjing’s Deji Art Museum describes his approach to collecting and his love of Taihu stones