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...Start on the third floor of the National Gallery of Victoria's Ian Potter Centre, where 46 artists can be witnessed in relatively traditional white-walled spaces (though this being Federation Square, there are no right angles). Here Adelaide sculptor Andrew Best's huge-scale replica of the '80s video game Donkey Kong serves as a useful guide. As with that game, your eye will be pulled along vertiginous corridors until a visual "hook" pulls you into the next space. Then descend into the dark depths of acmi, where the other artists dwell. Here Marcus Lyall's video Slow Service...
Although his weak lungs made it hard for him to lift a hammer, Modigliani initially thought of himself as a sculptor more than a painter. Three years after his arrival in Paris, he would meet Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor whose search for simplified line and form would touch something deep in Modigliani. It was through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage...
...Greeks had a word for it: hubris. But Brad Pitt's Achilles wears it well. Whether he slices through a horde of Trojan soldiers or blithely decapitates a statue of Apollo or struts naked through a tent--his elaborately muscled body a perfect subject for sculptor Praxiteles and already gold-plated by the sun--he gives a sense of the beast god luxuriating in his earned star quality. "I've known men like you my whole life," says the defiant virgin Briseis (Rose Byrne). "No, you haven't," Achilles replies, not as a boast but as a warning...
...intersection of Eliot and Brattle streets. “It’s a statue of Doo Doo, Igor’s favorite character, that was commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, placed there in honor of him,” says Henoch. “A Russian sculptor named Konstantin Simun created the statue, and over 1000 people attended the dedication...
...people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist?famed for making artwork from decomposing food?is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project...