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http://www.btinternet.com/~david.dalziel/jpegs/heavy_horse.jpg

Heavy Horse by Andy Scott, just by the M8 on the west of Glasgow.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

claes oldenburg proposal for a new bridge in rotterdam. unfortunately not chosen out. this makes me my favorite would-be-public-art piece.

http://www.kunsttrip.nl/images/rotterdam/Boymans%20van%20Beuningen%20claes%20oldenburg.JPG

erik, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.alcaudon.com/pictures/germany/pictures_germany_frankfurt_15.jpg

Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Gustav Vigeland's stuff in Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/vigeland/vigeland04.jpg

Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The War Memorial Fountain, Cleveland. Sculptor, Marshall Fredericks. Dedicated 30 May 1964.


http://www.ocpm.edu/cleveland/DSCF0032s.jpg

weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernini fountains. Someone else can find the pics.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The 25 foot high groundhog. Straight out of the movie.

brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

WARNING:NUDITY!!!
http://www.futurebird.com/%7Eshadows/thinspiration/page29.html That's perfection for you!!!

Laura, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The "pro-ana" movement -- WTF?

...that is, if you have anything worthwhile to say.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Bruce Nauman A Rose Has No Teeth- A Brass Plaque meant to be affixed on an a oak tree, the tree absorbs the plaque. theory and pretty.

anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 23 January 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://cartography.geog.uu.nl/columbus/es/statues/sevilla_egg.jpg

zurab tsereteli's columbus egg in sevilla

erik, Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 April 2003 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

What/where's that, Anthony?

OleM (OleM), Saturday, 19 April 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

another claes oldenburg piece. ha, I like that.

€rik, Saturday, 19 April 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite is Oldenberg again:

http://net.unl.edu/~swi/arts/images/ntbshuttle.jpeg

Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 19 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.raoul-wallenberg.net/images/hopepic1.jpg


http://www.raoul-wallenberg.net/images/hopepic4.jpg

I happened to be in the neighborhood of the U.N. a few days ago and I saw this suitcase-like object near a cluster of standard-issue black rough-hewn minimalist obelisks. My first instinct was: oh my god, that couldn't be...no...it couldn't be a bomb, could it? It eventually turned out to be suitcase. A metal one. That little detail transformed the deathly-dull and gave it some human scale. This thing, missing its owner, gave a sense that what this sculpture was "about" was unfinished business, something incomplete, not "history" in the perjorative sense. Very moving.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Erik's picks are fantastic.

Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

oldenburg and tsereteli rule ths thread.

http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/241-242/peter.jpg

tsereteli is the oldenburg of communist russia.

erik, Saturday, 19 April 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

the spoon and cherry is in the walker sculpture garden in Minneapolis.
i've never liked it so much. why can't we climb on it??!!!
played many a game of capture the flag in front of it though.
i like interactive public sculpture.

gabriel (gabe), Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked this mural:

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/LA_murals/Hollywood/moviestars.jpeg

luna (luna.c), Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

It's hard to see in this pic, but:

http://www.pps.org/graphics/gpp/sunnyside_piazza4_large

http://www.pps.org/gps/one?public_place_id=504

Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/Downtown/Grandhope/angel.jpeg

"Angel" Gwynn Murrill 1990 - Grand and 9th

luna (luna.c), Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mulvaney.net/images/barcelona/sagfam3.jpg

The Subirachs designed side of Sagrada Familia.

David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 19 April 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

the soldiers(?)look starwars-y

Erik, Sunday, 20 April 2003 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...
three years pass...

tony matelli's 'sleepwalker', now on display outdoors on the wellesley campus:

http://www.boston.com/yourcampus/news/sleep3davidlryan.jpg

http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-matelli-sleepwalker.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3703/13062612515_4d33fab737.jpg

also a version with a woman sleepwalker:

https://www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/21_tony_matelli_survival_w_03_detail-200x300.jpg

some good pictures here
http://hoardedordinaries.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/big-man-on-campus/

copy of the petition by wellesley students to remove it from campus and the response from the museum director declining
https://www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/choices-for-a-sleepwalker-at-wellesley-college/

globe critic on the show containing the statue
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/02/15/threshold-states-and-dark-wit-standout-show-tony-matelli/fwMYQ5sQQvaPVUhLoXGbTI/story.html

interview w/ the artist
http://www.boston.com/yourcampus/news/wellesley/2014/02/qa_with_tony_matelli_artist_behind_wellesley_colleges_scantily-clad_sleepwalking_statue.html

What were you aiming to do or say with Sleepwalker?

The sculpture is of a man who is hopelessly lost and out of place. What I was wanting to do with the work is just present that idea of misplacement, of loss and abandon and of being asleep at the wheel, really. It's a feeling we all have often, and a feeling we relate to.

j., Monday, 10 March 2014 23:42 (twelve years ago)

That's an amazingly good sculpture.

Also, do sleepwalkers really walk with their arms out like zombies ?

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 12:21 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...
seven years pass...

This one really moves me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RQxt1eHI_o
Bihar ("tomorrow" in Basque), by Mexican artist Ruben Orozco Loza, installed without fanfare in the Nervion river of Bilbao this September.

worst boy (Sanpaku), Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:46 (four years ago)


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