Sculpture & Installation

From traditional sculpting to the genre busting art of three dimensional installation, read the latest exhibition reviews and news or explore the latest event listings, websites and resources drawn from UK galleries.

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Andrei Molodkin stirs the blood with new commission for Derry-Londonderry's Void

The Russian artist installs Catholic Blood, complete with a refrigerator, medical pumps and a model of the Rose Window from the Houses of Parliament.

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Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture

Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.

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Museums at Night Report: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International

The premiere of a new work by light magicians rAndom International hit the headlines at London's Horniman. There was music, dancing and poetry. Gin also materialised.

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Museums at Night Report: Gavin Turk, pyramid power and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.

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Martin Creed talks art, music and psychotherapy ahead of Museums at Night at the Freud Museum

Ahead of his Museums at Night appearance at the Freud Museum in London, Martin Creed reveals to Culture24's Mark Sheerin why he is a big fan of Freud.

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Gavin Turk on pharaohs, pyramids and magic carpet rides ahead of Museums at Night 2013

Gavin Turk is heading to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery for Museums at Night. Here he tells Mark Sheerin about the power of the pyramids and other wisdom from the east.

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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public

Vitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.

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Jake Chapman talks art, Hastings and the joys of "funny pessimism" ahead of Museums at Night

The Chapman Brothers' Museums at Night event at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings may have raised a few eyebrows, but as Jake Chapman explains, "no-one's going to get hurt..."

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From John Lewis to the Barn Gallery, husband and wife artists build A Siege of Cranes at Barn Gallery Otley

Partly based on the Red-crowned Crane which became a symbol of hope in an area of Northern Japan, an artist duo have made a series of large-scale, beautiful installations at Otley's Barn Gallery.

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Moment to Moment: Randy Klein's sculpture at St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh

A touring collection of 100 sculptures by Randy Klein visits St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, creating a large-scale piece about spirituality in modern times.

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Museums at Night 2013: Julia Vogl on bottles and social sculpture in Newcastle

Julia Vogl is planning to fill the Discovery Museum's 19th century home with a kaleidoscope of public messages for Museums at Night. The social sculptor tells us more.

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Call for return of Ai Weiwei's seeds results in surprise 10-pound arrival

Curators at current exhibition Couriers of Taste, at Danson House in Bexleyheath, have received a ten-pound sack of seeds, collected by an avid Ai Weiwei fan at one of his previous exhibitions in New ......

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The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.

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Mariele Neudecker – Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes at the Brighton Festival

Mariele Neudecker's three-storey show at Brighton's Regency Town House could represent the German installation artist's most ambitious work to date, says Mary Stevens.

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Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry-Londonderry

David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tino Sehgal are the four artists who will compete for this year's Turner Prize.

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