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Oracle (2021) at Rockefeller Center. Photo by Daniel Greer, courtesy of Art Production Fund.
Sanford Biggers is taking over New York’s Rockefeller Center this spring with a campus-wide art installation headlined by
Oracle, a monumental bronze sculpture that standing 25 feet tall and weighing in at over 15,000 pounds is the Harlem-based artist’s largest work to date.
Delayed from a planned September debut, Wednesday’s unveiling “was amazing just because of the sheer size and magnitude of the work itself,” Biggers told Artnet News. “To open right now, as the city is starting to open up and the weather is getting nice, and to leave this as a gift in the city I live in is an extreme honor.”
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Ditch the screen and head to the museum: here are five events along the CT Art Trail
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The iconic Florence Griswold Museum will host a CT Open House online offering rare views seen only online.Sean FlynnShow MoreShow Less
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Brushes for applying ink in the Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking.Alex von Kleydorff / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Art is better in person there, I said it. While it’s wonderful that museums and galleries have made art more accessible through their online exhibitions during the pandemic, it just isn’t the same as viewing it up close and personal.
Paul Manship’s Ode on a Grecian Urn David Ebony
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, gift of Henry and Walter Keney.
Luckily for Paul Manship and his legacy, “decorative” is no longer a pejorative term in today’s pluralistic art world. The recent revival of interest in the “pattern and decoration” art movement of the 1970s and ’80s, for instance, and the renewed appreciation for craft and craftsmanship among contemporary artists, call for a reassessment of those for whom refinement, elegance, graceful forms, and decorative lines, plus astute allusions to art-historical precedents, are hallmarks of their highly polished productions. As the leading proponent of “archaism,” an international modernist movement that thrived in the first decades of the twentieth century, Manship would find many likeminded artists today, ranging from Carlo Maria Mariani and Audrey Flack to Sarah Peters and Justin Matherly, who have regularly incorporated images appr