Sculpture

Kimbell Art Museum acquires jade olmec sculpture

Kimbell Art Museum acquires jade olmec sculpture
The Kimbell Art Museum has announced today the acquisition of one of the most renowned sculptures from ancient Mesoamerica, an unqualified icon of Olmec civilization. Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (c. 900–300 B.C.), a statuette carved in jadeite, has been at the center of Olmec studies and the subject of scholarly interpretation since the mid-twentieth century. It becomes the most significant work of ancient American art in the Kimbell’s collection. The superb figure was acquired in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Kimbell’s Renzo Piano Pavilion, where it will be the centerpiece of the museum’s ancient American collection beginning December 15, 2023.

Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture

Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture
Instead of adhering to a timeline—the organizing yet constraining scaffold of most full-career studies of a single artist—the publication’s thematic, fragmented format allows for connections to branch outwards and through Nevelson’s art.

Charles LeDray: Shiner

Charles LeDray: Shiner
Charles LeDray’s Peter Freeman, Inc. exhibition, Shiner, contains no literal or figurative black eyes, no depictions of bruises or marks of shame. It does contain a scaled-down sculpture of a wooden shoeshine kit, Shiner (2015–23), with the title word painted on its side in wobbly yellow letters.