The Contemporary Series - Sarah Sze - The Triple Point of Water
Known for her intricate site–specific installations combining natural and artificial plant life with the miscellany of everyday life, Sarah Sze creates a fantastical urban garden in the Museum’s Sculpture Court. Her whimsical arrangements, comprising thousands of objects, become imaginary miniature ecosystems that borrow from the visual vocabularies of archaeological digs, construction sites, and pastoral oases. At once architectural and organic, intimate and epic, her installation suggests complex strata of an imagined ecosystem lying just below street level, which might be revealed if the walls of the space were peeled away. [ read more ] >>
Whitney Museum of American Art Web site >>
Sarah Sze by : Jerome Sans, Jean Louis Schefer, Fondation Cartier >>

The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
is an exhibition of approximately 95 sculptures and examples of jewelry from the Chola Dynasty in south India, c. 10th –12th centuries A.D.. Some of the jewelry dates to the 17th and 18th c.. The sculptures are masterpieces of Indian bronze casting and the exhibit includes the DMA Shiva Nataraja (the god Shiva as Lord of the Dance) in its art historical context. There are superb examples of Hindu religious art from both American and European collections. [ read more ] >>
Dallas Museum of Art Web site >>
The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India >>

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture
Pondering the origins of the world and their own ancestry, African societies often sought to provide answers to these and other perplexing concepts in their oral traditions, poetry, and art. The Bamana people of Mali, for example, attributed the invention of agriculture and their understanding of the earth, animals, and plants to a mythical hero called Chi Wara, shown in sculptural form as a roan antelope. The elegant Chi Wara headdresses were created in wood in male-female pairs and worn during agricultural ceremonies. [ read more ] >>
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site >>
Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture >>