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Wall Street Journal
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Ruth Asawa: Retrospective' Review: SFMOMA's Ethereal Abstractions
San Francisco Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) has long been admired for her abstract looped-and-tied-wire sculptures—three-dimensional single- and multi-lobed transparent-mesh structures that playfully flit among art, nature, industry and craft. Suspended from the ceiling and glistening like chainmail or spiderwebs, her ghostly, often-nested, hourglass spheres conjure pods, cones, onion-domes, vegetation and sea creatures, as well as digestive tracts and birth canals.
CTV News
19 hours ago
- CTV News
Francis the Pig statue will return
Red Deer's infamous Francis the Pig statue will be reinstalled in August. The porcine icon has been gone for nearly two years after the metal rods that hold the sculpture in place were damaged.
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
‘Neon Heroes' shines light on Hong Kong's illuminated heritage
For decades, neon signs lit up Hong Kong, casting vivid hues across the urban jungle. But as government regulations continue to tighten, most of those glowing tubes have been replaced with LED Advertisement Artist Jerry Loo with the Superhero Landing sculpture featuring at the PMQ exhibition in Hong Kong's Central district. Photo: Neon Heroes Running from today to July 7, the 'Neon Heroes: Illuminated Dreams' exhibition is a collaboration between two generations of talent. The interactive display will feature six neon sculptures that blend Master Wong's 66 years of experience with Loo's contemporary artistic vision and his love for superheroes. 'This project is not just about neon lights, it's about legacy,' says Loo. 'It's a tribute to my grandfather and to all the unsung heroes who continue to make Hong Kong glow.' The sculptures themselves are playful yet poignant. Superhero Landing, with its cracked-earth base, channels the energy of comic-book legends, a reminder that heroism begins with courage, while The Luminous nods to anime icons such as Dragon Ball that defined many a childhood and reflects the light we carry within ourselves. Neon Heroes spotlights a rising talent in Hong Kong's neon sculpture scene. Photo: Neon Heroes Most affecting is Eternal Glow: Legacy in Neon, co-created by grandfather and grandson. This centrepiece honours the tradition of neon craftsmanship and its artisans. In this spirit, the exhibition becomes a testament to those who have quietly shaped the city's visual identity.
Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Times
William Kentridge: the Pull of Gravity review — romp with a playful genius
You might think of William Kentridge as a political artist. Born and raised in South Africa, the son of barristers who represented those oppressed by the apartheid system, he is internationally recognised especially for his mesmerising films that use hand-drawn charcoal animation, rubbed out and redrawn, along with live performers, to explore social injustice and the abuse of power. So you would be right, but Yorkshire Sculpture Park's exhibition takes a different tack, focusing on the way that, over the past couple of decades, Kentridge has shifted towards sculpture, beginning with the kinetic props that form part of his installations and theatre or opera productions. Here only one of these, Singer Trio (2019), is functional, but it does sing at you when you approach. Made of sewing machines, it's a nice indication of the absurdity to come. Inspired by Dada and Surrealism, there is something captivating and playful about Kentridge's work, even when it's in service of serious matters. His style is also unmistakable. Here you get a sense of how he has built his unique visual lexicon, moving from drawings to tearing the shapes out of paper, to 3D models, playing with scale — such as the new works made specifically for this exhibition, Paper Procession, which loom brightly in the landscape outside the galleries. With Goat (2021) he realised the bronze coils resembled a four-legged creature and added a goat's head, in homage to Picasso's 1950 She-Goat. With his Glyphs series, which suggest meaning but remain ambiguous, Kentridge takes everyday objects such as hand tools, and turns them into sculpture, very much in the mode of Picasso or Mirò. Meaning and ambiguity, questioning certainty, challenging conventional images of authority, are consistent ideas. Nothing is quite as it seems — Cat Coffee Pot (2019) is a mass of bronze scribbles which, at one angle, resembles a scrawny cat, and at another morphs into a coffee pot. A collection of raggedy horses, all bronze but one appearing to be made out of ladders (it's one of several impressive trompe l'oeil collaborations with a scenic painter) subvert the traditional equestrian portrait, the elevation to the heroic that comes from sticking a man on a horse and a horse on a plinth. As ever, though, the films take a starring role. More Sweetly Play the Dance (2015), an unfurling parade of figures processing through an animated landscape in a sort of danse macabre that references the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, runs on a loop across seven huge screens with Oh to Believe in Another World (2022), a lavish animated exploration of Russian history from the 1920s to the death of Stalin, set to Shostakovich's 10th Symphony with dancers and puppets representing key historical figures from despots to poets. • Read more art reviews, guides and interviews I could watch his series Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (2020-24), revealing his working life through animation and irascible arguments with a duplicate of himself, for hours (and probably will — they're available to stream on Mubi). Here it's surrounded by evocations of the studio. It invites you in, and keeps you there, like everything he does.★★★★☆From June 28 to April 19, 2026, @timesculture to read the latest reviews
CTV News
2 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Dead crow sculpture removed
Dead crow sculpture removed The dead crow sculpture on a pathway near LeBreton Flats is flying away after two years. CTV's Tyler Fleming reports.
