Jeff Koons' rooftop installation at The Metropolitan Museum opened today, featuring three stainless steel sculptures with transparent colored coatings. The three pieces are Balloon Dog (Yellow), Sacred Heart (Red/Gold), and Coloring Book, the last being the representation of a sloppily colored-in illustration of Piglet, from the Winnie the Pooh series. The special exhibition will continue through October 26.

The NY Times wrote the rooftop is "inhospitable site for sculpture," but "Their setting aside, Mr. Koons’s sculptures remain intellectually and sensuously exciting objects — 'Balloon Dog' is a masterpiece — and they are worth visiting under any circumstances." culturegrrl reports that Koons' "Tulips" was considered but ultimately deemed too big for the roof.

Via Gothamist (more photos)

Last night I went to the opening of Neil Webb's (AKA Bocman) latest show at Bloc space, Sheffield: The Stars In Us All.

The work is inspired by astronaut Dave Bowman's last words before entering the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddyssey: "My God, it's full of stars". Webb has positioned three black monoliths around the studio, each highly polished and perfectly reflective. The monoliths, the room itself, and a bench in the room all act as loudspeakers, broadcasting a 45-minute sound piece. The only faint light in the gallery is provided by blue neon lights behind each monolilth.

The result is suitably awe-inspiring, frequently meditative and contemplative, and occasionally disturbing. As with previous works by Webb which I'm familiar with, there is a perfect relationship between the auditory and the visual, and every element seems perfectly judged to contribute to the overall experience.

The show is also reviewed in today's Guardian Guide . 

Art Installation
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Anti oil installation in Berlin at least I think it is

Anthony Gormley in Berlin
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Went to this Gallery in Berlin The George Kolbe Museum which was set up by the sculpturerer himself. Really nice gallery at the end of a residential street.

www.georg-kolbe-museum.de   

Zhang Huan at Haunch of Venison Berlin
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 Got  a press release about this website today a unique functional sculptural experience  LINK

this via Tim Yu at coolhuntiing

The latest sculpture by Brooklyn artist James T. Williamson, titled "It's Hard Work," is a spoof on the traditional plaster presidential bust. What began in 2001 as a study to better understand Bush's face, the all-to-familiar squinting visage comes in a military green, slate blue, red and tan. Williamson says, "I had been creating two dimensional Bush protraits and caricatures and was frustrated by his deceptively complex face." more details including where to by one after the jump link

Bruce Nauman: Infrared Outtakes: Neck Pull (photographed by Jack Fulton), 1968/2006; four Epson UltraChrome K3 inkjet prints; 20 x 28 in. each; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, gift of the artist and Gemini G.E.L. LLC. Copyright 2006 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.  

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, a major exhibition of early work by Bruce Nauman, one of the most influential artists working today. The exhibition is the first ever to focus on the years Nauman lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and features the full range of his work from the 1960s, when he laid the foundation for all of his subsequent, ground-breaking work in sculpture, performance, and film and video art.

Curated by Constance Lewallen, BAM/PFA senior curator, the exhibition will provide new research and insight into a vital early stage of Nauman's career. Featured in the exhibition will be more than 100 works - several of which have never been exhibited before - including drawings, sculpture, neon reliefs, photographs, films, videos, sound and text works, installations, artist books, and ephemera. A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s will be on view at BAM/PFA from Wednesday, January 17 through Sunday, April 15, 2007, before touring Europe and the United States.

Nauman is widely regarded as being among the most important living American artists. His work employs forms that range from Post-Minimalism and Conceptual art to film and video and installation art, through which a series of themes and ideas consistently appear: the use of the body as a material; the integration of art and language; the relationship of art and architecture; and such dichotomies as concealment and revelation, interior and exterior, and positive and negative space, among others.

Calling Nauman's work "more pertinent than ever," the New York Times recently stated: "A pioneer in Post-Minimalist video and performance art, and a sculptor of seemingly limitless versatility, Mr. Nauman has been famous and critically admired since he arrived on the scene…and his work has exerted an important influence on contemporary art ever since." LINK

… and Antony Gormley