She achieved great success in her lifetime, but Hepworth was also patronised as a female and provincial artist. As a Tate Britain retrospective opens, it is time to acknowledge her place in the first rank of sculpture
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Though cast from bands of stainless steel ribbons, these figurative sculptures by Texas-based artist Gil Bruvel seem more fluid than solid, as if the wind could simply blow them apart. The works above are all part of the artist’s Flow series that he says are meant to reveal “an essential underlying fluidity that exists simultaneously within the physical, quantum, and metaphoric realms.” Bruvel was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959 and he began learning the basics of sculpting at the age of nine before embarking on an artist career that now spans nearly 40 years. More
Nearly 30 years ago, sculptor John Bisbee was exploring an abandoned house, scavenging for items he could incorporate into found-object sculptures, when
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A.K.A. My Museum Shopping List! (If you read my blog regularly, this first part may sound familiar…) Steampunk is a modern fashion movements that reinvents certain aspects and fashion facets …