The Amon Carter Museum has added a major work to its holdings of early 20th-century American sculpture: a bronze with brown patina and nickel plate entitled Woman Seated by Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935). The acquisition was supported by funds from The Council, a membership group that was established in 1988 to honor Amon G. Carter's vision as a collector.
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Tate has acquired Louise Bourgeois's celebrated sculpture of a giant female spider, Maman 1999. The work is a gift of the artist and an anonymous benefactor.
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The sixth "Louvre Atlanta" exhibition will open at the High Museum of Art this June, featuring highlights from the Louvre's unparalleled collection of sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon.
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Koh-i-noor, a mixed-media sculpture of Queen Elizabeth, by the Scottish-born artist Hew Locke that explores tensions within contemporary British society and their relationship to colonial history, has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art announced today it has received a gift in honor of Julia Jones Daniels, former chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Created and designed specifically for the Museum by artist Roxy Paine, Askew is a 43-foot tall hand-wrought, stainless steel tree.
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Beginning February 15, the Asian Art Museum will present On Gold Mountain: Sculptures from the Sierra by Zhan Wang, an exhibition of site-specific sculptures by one of China's most celebrated contemporary artists.
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Scientists in France are reporting for the first time that sculptors from the fantastically wealthy ancient Empire of Mali — once the source of almost half the world’s gold — used blood to form the beautiful patina, or coating, on their works of art.
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Vast sculptures created from a variety of domestic objects are currently filling the spacious galleries of the New Art Gallery Walsall. They have been created by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos for her first major UK exhibition, which runs at the gallery until November 25 2007.
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African artist Taslim Martin is to unveil a poignant sculpture 'Blue Earth 1807-2007' to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery. From Thursday 25th October 2007 at the Horniman Museum, Blue Earth will be a major new permanent addition to the museum's African Worlds Gallery measuring some 1.2 metres in diameter.
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A sculpture showing Prince Harry, who was stopped from serving with the British army in Iraq, "dead" in his military uniform is to go on show at a London art fair.
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Juan Muñoz (1953 – 2001) is widely regarded as of one of the foremost contemporary sculpture and installation artists. Revealing his innovative and wide ranging artistic practice, Tate Modern presents the first major solo retrospective of Muñoz's work in the UK.
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Kew is being the perfect host over the next few months to a crowd of modernist sculptures by one of England's best known sculptors of the 20th century, Henry Moore. The picture shows 'Draped Reclining Mother and Baby, 1983. © Caroline Lewis / 24 Hour Museum'.
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