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Artist & Artifact

Wed, Dec 1 2010 by | FILED UNDER: Architecture | Art | Sculpture

Meredith Bergmann. HISTORIA TESTIS TEMPORUM: Pinky, 2010

November 30, 2010 marked my first visit to both the Brooklyn Historical Society and BRIC Rotunda Gallery thanks to an artist panel and gallery talk featuring Nora Herting, Andrés Vera Martínez, Meredith Bergmann and Stanley Greenberg.  The artist panel and gallery talk is the last of the BHS and BRICarts’ public programming for the exhibition, Artist & Artifact, Re|Visioning Brooklyn’s Past.

Artist & Artifact, Re|Visioning Brooklyn’s Past began in 2007 as part of a large effort to open the doors of the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) to new audiences and to invite artists to join in an effort to look at the collections and the history they represent with fresh eyes.  Three years later, ten artists and writers have produced work… Read More→

Public Art Fund: STATUESQUE

Wed, Oct 27 2010 by | FILED UNDER: Art | Sculpture

Thomas Houseago, Untitled (Red Man), 2008

The term “statuesque” suggests attributes of classical beauty, elegance, and proportion. The statue was, at one time, the model of artistic form. But the classical statue is now a historical style, evoking an earlier era. This exhibition of recent works by six international artists poses the question of what it means for a contemporary sculpture to be like a statue. How do today’s artists draw upon and reinvent this tradition?

via Public Art Fund

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