Category Sculpture Parks
Eternal Presence by John Wilson, Different Versions
Eternal Presences: John Wilson’s Art in Roxbury, Framingham and Lincoln
Look Up at Sheep in Chinatown Park on the Greenway in Boston
Why Go Soon? Ten sculpted sheep by Brooklyn-based artist Kyu Seok Oh give us ten new reasons to look up from a park path on the Greenway. Since the second week in June, the hand-made paper sheep have stood on red metal perches just beyond reach in Chinatown Park, at the end along Essex Street, two blocks southwest […]
Alchemist in Cambridge and Humming in Lincoln, Huge Human Forms by Jaume Plensa
Humming by Jaume Plensa at the deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA and his Alchemist on MIT’s campus in Cambridge are the only two sculptures by Plensa that I have seen in person. I’ve known Humming for a few years, and I’m only just getting to know Alchemist. Like several other sculptures by this innovative versatile artist, both are much larger than […]
Playful Work by Artist Thomas Willis in Home Depot House at deCordova
This is my third post about deCordova Biennial’s Home Depot House but first to include a direct link to artist John C. Gonzalez’ story of how it came to be. Curating a series of month-long residencies there by six different artists, John carried out the first one, in early fall. Now in nearly spring, this final residency […]
John Osorio-Buck, Artist with Crickets at Home Depot House
At deCordova on a sunny chilly Friday afternoon at the end of February, I got to see how John Osorio-Buck has transformed Home Depot House. For this artist it has become a space to study,raise, harvest, prepare, and serve crickets, but only until Sunday afternoon, March 9. I’m posting now to alert people to this […]
Indoors Outdoors: Home Depot House at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
As a volunteer guide at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for more than a decade, I should be accustomed to changes indoors with each new exhibit and outdoors with each new artwork. Yet some changes still startle me. For instance, in late September at the top of the steps near the museum entrance a huge crane deposited […]
Red, Yellow and Blue Installation by Orly Genger at deCordova
How did artist Orly Genger manage to install more than a million feet of hand-crocheted lobster fishing rope throughout the grounds of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts? What inspired the creation of this grand-scale work of art? The deCordova website offers answers to these questions, along with dramatic photos of each of the […]
Art Outdoors 