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Odysseus moon landing: Jeff Koons has pulled off one of the great art stunts of thecentury
David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester
Has Jeff Koons’ latest high-profile stunt just proved that space is the new frontier for art?
When you sit down to build a sandcastle, take a look around you: the beach is alreadysculpting
Mark Friedlander, The University of Melbourne
Building a sandcastle is a response to the full beach environment as a collaborator.
Victor Ekpuk is a Nigerian artist who uses ancient African graphic writing systems to unveil a stunning new display ofcreativity
Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Rutgers University
INTERwoven TEXTures is a breakthrough exhibition. Here’s a review of it.
How an underwater sculpture trail plays a role in the health – and beauty – of the Great BarrierReef
Adam Smith, James Cook University and Nathan Cook, James Cook University
Reef sculptures are a form of artifical reef: man-made structures placed into an aquatic environment to mimic certain characteristics of a natural reef.
Missing objects leave British Museum facing historic crisis of custodianship – but case is far fromunique
Catharine Titi, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
A sculptor of wind explains how to make fiber dance far above citystreets
Janet Echelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Artist Janet Echelman explains how she collaborates with engineers to create massive sculptures that have changed city landscapes and inspired people around the world.
What is vernacular art? A visual artistexplains
Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee
The genre – also known as ‘folk art’ or ‘outsider art’ – serves as a reminder that art is a universal human pursuit.
How Yorkshire influenced the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and HenryMoore
Michael White, University of York
Growing up in Yorkshire gave Hepworth and Moore outsider viewpoints on the art world.
My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming theocean
Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
This new ‘risky’ playground is a work of art – and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parents
Sanné Mestrom, University of Sydney
The new playground in Melbourne’s Southbank is the work of artist Mike Hewson – and it’s exactly the ‘risk’ it proposes that makes it so valuable.
How whiteness was invented and fashioned in Britain’s colonial age ofexpansion
Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
Glasgow’s relaunched Burrell Collection may be unique and much-loved, but how does it fit into the cultural landscapetoday?
Dr Blane Savage, University of the West of Scotland
Gathered throughout the period of the British empire and gifted to the people of Glasgow, this famous collection is both spectacular and problematical.
Paula Rego: why the Portuguse artist’s work remains relevant in the fight for abortionrights
Bee Hughes, Liverpool John Moores University
The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
Imperial loot in a small-town gallery in New Zealand? The curious case of Gore’s ‘Beninbronzes’
Jonathan Barrett, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Items on display at the Eastern Southland Gallery in New Zealand’s South Island open a window on the complex world of art repatriation.
Benin bronzes: What is the significance of their repatriation toNigeria?
Joey Akan, The Conversation and Usifo Omozokpea, The Conversation
After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. What's next?
Larger than life –sculptor Margel Hinder carved light and form and left alegacy
Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne
Margel Hinder was responsible for some of Australia’s most significant public sculptures in the 1960s and 70s. A major exhibition now examines the totality of her career.
Virtual exhibition breathes life into Lesotho’s musical tradition and clayart
Sylvia Bruinders, University of Cape Town
Clay figurines of musicians, made in the 1930s, are being exhibited along with a new film of actual musicians playing the traditional instruments.
If I could go anywhere: Château La Coste, a sculpture and wine walk in Provence holds randomsurprises
Emma Felton, Queensland University of Technology
Of all the places to be right now, picking your way between sculptures in the French countryside, with a glass of wine to finish, sounds ideal.
Diana statue: What it reveals about the challenges of sculpting famouspeople
Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Nottingham Trent University
Reactions to the new figure embody the problems that come with recreating the images of modern icons
Why this Rodin scholar would gladly see the back of TheThinker
Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, University of Essex
All muscles and sensuous flesh, its hyper and toxic masculinity puts this Rodin scholar off the artist’s most famous artwork.
