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Museum Of Modern Art Presents Sculpture By Martin Puryear

This retrospective of the sculptures of acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear (b. 1941) at Museum Of Modern Art, New York will feature 47 works that chart the development of Puryear's artistic career over the last 30 years, from his first solo museum show in 1977 to the present day.

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Philadelphia Museum To Display Sculpture To Maximum Advantage

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's holdings in modern and contemporary sculpture are the product of years of ambitious collecting in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a particularly radical period in the history of sculpture. Because of limitations in gallery space in the main Museum, many of the masterworks of this collection are not always on view, and some have only rarely been exhibited.

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San Francisco Museum Presents Sculpture Of Louise Nevelson

San Francisco museum will present Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend on view from October 27, 2007 to January 13, 2008.

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Houston Museum Presents End Game

End Game, a sculpture completed in 2004 by British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965), is now on view through December 31, 2007 at Houston Museum, in its first public showing in the United States.

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Vancouver Gallery Removes Insects, Reptiles From Sculpture

In order to maintain the integrity of the artwork, officials at the Vancouver Art Gallery will remove the insects and reptiles contained in Huang Yong Ping's sculpture, Theater of the World rather than comply with a new BC SPCA order to make further modifications.

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Buddhist sculptures of 12th century found in Indonesian cave

An Indonesian cave used for meditation by Buddhist monks in the 12th century contains previously undiscovered sculptures depicting the spiritual journey of Buddha, a religious leader said.

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Appearing Rooms At Southbank Centre

To coincide with the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall, the spectacular fountain Appearing Rooms by Danish artist Jeppe Hein returns to Southbank Centre. A hugely popular installation last summer, the sculpture invites visitors of all ages to wonder at its labyrinth of water walls.

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Jewish Museum Exhibition Focuses On Towering Figure

The Jewish Museum will present The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, the first major American survey of her work since 1980, through September 16, 2007. Sixty-six works will be on view including sculpture, drawings and two room-size masterworks.

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Louise Nevelson Sculpture At De Young Museum

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend is the first major retrospective in America in more than two decades to examine the work of one of the towering figures of postwar American art. Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was known for her monumental sculptures and her practice of constructing them from found wood. Her autobiographical works symbolically address issues of marriage, motherhood, death, Jewish culture, memory and (although she resisted the label) feminism.

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Contemporary Work By Mark Handforth At Dallas Museum

The Dallas Museum of Art is proud to announce the acquisition and installation of Mark Handforth’s contemporary sculpture Dallas Snake as part of Concentrations, an ongoing exhibition series that recognizes the critical and challenging work of emerging international contemporary artists.

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Indian Sculpture Debuts At Cleveland Museum

Shiva as Brahma (South India, Chola dynasty, late 10th/Early 11th century), a life-sized sculptural representation of one of the supreme deities of the Hindu pantheon, will make its Cleveland debut alongside other key works from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s holdings of Indian sculpture in the exhibition, Shiva: A Recent Acquisition.

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National Building Museum Showcases Art Of David Macaulay

Through January 21, 2008, the National Building Museum will present David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing of Architecture an exploration of Macaulay’s original architectural illustrations as a form of visual archeology—a metaphor and a set of visual methods for “excavating” historical structures.

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