Sculpture

GRANITE CARVING SYMPOSIUM At Contemporary Arts International, 68 Quarry Road, Acton. Exhibition of artists at work open from noon to 6 p.m. through Sunday, with a $5 donation for adults and $2 for children. Official unveiling is 11 a.m. Saturday. www.contemporaryartsinternational.org. ACTON - The streets that delineate this North Acton neighborhood bespeak its earlier history: Granite Road, Quarry Road, Ledge Rock Way. There was a time in the late 1800s when this was primarily an industrial zone, its granite used to manufacture sign markers, fence posts, and...

PICK OF THE DAY Now and then We think about technology's effect on our life (no more remote controls, please), but haven't pondered its impact on sculpture. We'll leave that to experts who will discuss this and other subjects at the "Sculpture NOW!" panel discussion on Thursday, part of the New England Sculptors Association exhibit. Work by 31 artists includes pieces sculpted from bronze, steel, wood, found objects, and more. Pictured: "Red Swan" by Rob Lorenson.

A spherical sculpture that endured the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center is close to getting a temporary new home that will keep it in the public eye, officials said Friday, but they wouldn't say where just yet. Seen as a tribute to survival since it emerged largely intact from the rubble at ground zero, the bronze-and-steel sphere has been in lower Manhattan's Battery Park for a decade. But it needs to move to make way for a park renovation. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that a new location would be announced next week.

Three opening receptions for upcoming exhibitions will be held Sunday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden St. An exhibition titled "Duxbury Artists" and curated by museum director Charles Weyerhaeuser in honor of the town's 375th anniversary will include work by Duxbury artists from the museum's own collection. Covering more than 300 years, the show includes oils on board and on canvas, prints, photographs, and sculpture. Some of the artists have been well-known town residents.

A sculpture of composer Aaron Copland will be unveiled at Tanglewood. His is the first in a series of sculptures of Tanglewood’s most iconic music figures planned for permanent display on the grounds. The sculpture by New England artist Penelope Jencks will be unveiled June 30 during a private ceremony in the formal gardens at Tanglewood. The sculpture will stand near the place where Copland’s ashes were scattered in 1990. Sculptures of Leonard Bernstein and Serge Koussevitzky will also be displayed on the grounds.

MURANO, Italy - On this island a mile north of Venice, tourists arrive by the boatload to visit the famed glassmaking studios and galleries. Though the shops vary from low-end to high, most of them quickly blend together. The studio-gallery of Luigi Camozzo, however, is an island apart. So are the master engraver's prices, but if you can't afford his museum-quality work, ranging from $250 to $7,500 and up, don't let that stop you from looking. You'll probably find Camozzo, 56, in his small workspace at the back of the shop doing what he's famous for: using an assortment of diamond,...

A judge has ruled in favor of Kevin Costner in a dispute between the Hollywood actor and an artist he commissioned to create a bronze sculpture for a resort in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The dispute centered around whether there was agreement between Costner and artist Peggy Detmers on the site where the artwork now sits. The Rapid City Journal reports that Judge Randall Macy ruled there was. Under terms of the contract, if the two hadn’t agreed on a site, Costner was to sell the sculpture and split the proceeds.

BROOKLINE — In the woods behind the market at Allandale Farm, a pair of wood nymphs has fallen asleep under a floating blanket. Their heads, made of wet, red clay, rise like burls from a couple of fallen trees. The blanket, a net of colorful ceramic tiles, has been strung at a tilt in front of the pair. This is “Window Pane Quilt,’’ a sculptural installation by Valorie Sheehan, one of 16 outdoor sculptures amid the hay bales and forest in “Agriculture Encounters Sculpture,’’ a new exhibit at Boston’s only major commercial farm.

Thieves have stolen a large bronze sculpture by one of Britain's most important modern sculptors from a London park. The sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, called "Two Forms (Divided Circle)," was discovered missing Tuesday morning after it was ripped from its plinth in south London's Dulwich Park. Local government officials said they will ask police and their metal theft unit to investigate the matter immediately. The theft came after Metropolitan Police on Monday dedicated a unit to tackle those who steal cables and car metal parts for scrap...

Visitors to New Hampshire's Currier Museum of Art on President's Day can admire a recently acquired marble bust of George Washington. Sculptor Hiram Powers of Woodstock, Vt., depicted Washington in popular neoclassical style — wearing a Roman toga rather the more customary military uniform. Powers died in 1873. The sculpture joins a marble bust of Alexander Hamilton and a bronze sculpture of Daniel Webster at the Manchester museum.

An artistic team has been chosen to create the statue of Celtics legend Bill Russell that is slated to be installed next year in Boston's City Hall Plaza, city and team officials announced Monday. Sculptor Antonio Tobias Mendez and architect Matthew Oudens will design and build the statue and accompanying pieces that President Obama had suggested should be put up to honor Russell, who was known for his prowess on the basketball court as well as his adamant support of civil rights.

OPENING MAY 19 PHILADELPHIA Barnes Foundation : Albert C. Barnes's development of a treatment for gonorrhea made him a very wealthy man in the early years of the last century. He used his wealth to amass an art collection now valued at $25 billion. Its holdings include 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 59 Matisses, and 46 Picassos, as well as works by Degas, Monet, Seurat, Van Gogh, Rousseau, and Modigliani — a Cooperstown of modern art. For many years, the Barnes was located in suburban Philadelphia, with limited access to the public.

If he had an epiphany, Joe Gallo said, it was the day he stopped to look at the Vendome Memorial by Ted Clausen and Peter White on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. The monument commemorates the nine firefighters who died in the Hotel Vendome blaze on June 17, 1972, with words on black granite and a firefighter's helmet and turnout coat in bronze. "It was just a very scary feeling, a very emotional feeling for how these people put their lives on the line, and yet it was coming from stone," said Gallo, 62. "How do you emit a feeling like that from stone and bronze?"

A spherical sculpture that endured the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center is close to getting a temporary new home that will keep it in the public eye, officials said Friday, but they wouldn't say where just yet. Seen as a tribute to survival since it emerged largely intact from the rubble at ground zero, the bronze-and-steel sphere has been in lower Manhattan's Battery Park for a decade. But it needs to move to make way for a park renovation. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that a new location would be announced next week.

The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that actor Kevin Costner did not breach a contract with an artist when he placed commissioned sculptures of bison and American Indians at a different site than was originally planned. The Hollywood superstar, who filmed much of his Academy Award-winning movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota, paid Peggy Detmers $300,000 to make 17 bronze sculptures for a resort called The Dunbar he planned to build on the edge of the Black Hills gambling town of Deadwood.

Late Arlington artist Cyrus Dallin's equestrian Paul Revere sculpture outside the Old North Church will be the subject of events in Boston's North End Sunday and next month. Arlington's Cyrus Dallin Art Museum is co-sponsoring both events, including a Community Celebration Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. in the Paul Revere Mall in the North End. The Community Celebration will commemorate Dallin's monument and the mall, designed by landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff and architect Henry Shepley.

By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent Boston's Edgar Allan Poe Square is one step closer to having a sculpture celebrating its namesake, as a local nonprofit group dedicated to the Boston-born author announced the finalists in a competition to design a piece of public art. The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston and the Boston Art Commission selected the finalists from a pool of 265 artists from 42 states and 13 countries, all vying to...

ARLINGTON - You might not recognize Cyrus Dallin's name, but you probably know his work. The sculptor, who lived the last 44 years of his life in Arlington, created the rousing statue of Paul Revere that's a favorite photo op in Boston's North End, the image of a Native American on horseback that sits in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the sculpture of Wampanoag sachem Massasoit on Coles Hill in Plymouth. Dallin also created more than 20 pieces for his adopted hometown, but largely slipped into obscurity after his death at 82 in 1944.

NEW YORK - Elizabeth Catlett, 96, whose abstracted sculptures of the human form reflected her deep concern with the African-American experience and the struggle for civil rights, died Monday at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she had lived since the late 1940s. June Kelly, one of her US dealers, said she died in her sleep. In her smoothly modeled clay, wood, and stone sculptures, and vigorous woodcuts and linocuts, Ms. Catlett drew on her experience as an African-American woman who had come of age at a time of widespread segregation.