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Exhibition “Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance“ until January 08, 2023, in the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin, and 2023 in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum

Teruki Kamiya’s drystone walls are about the forces of nature and beauty in stone

The Japanese is internationally known as a specialist in such designs

Bulgarian sculptor Georgi Minchev is in search of the “universal language“ that connects all people and, moreover, of “the philosophy that is in the matter“

Art history worldwide: the labyrinth as a predetermined path to a destination with numerous twists and turns, and the maze as a deliberate misdirection

Stone slabs or pavement, respectively green hedges or grass are the preferred materials

Sculptor Antonio López‘s work “Mujer del Almanzora“ made of Blanco Macael marble is the biggest marble sculpture in Spain

It was created in 2019 using CNC machinery processing the 230 t of stone and is supported by an interior metallic structure

The Fondazione Henraux has announced the 3 winners of its 2022 International Sculpture Prize

Winners are artists who work on contemporary themes innovatively using marble

Michael Heizer’s “City“, a vast complex of shaped mounds and depressions made of compacted dirt, rock, and concrete, is open to the public now

Under the motto “Piano in the Quarry,“ the Polish city of Strzegom had the country‘s best pianists perform in a former quarry as part of its cultural festival at the end of August 2022

The sculptor Saied Ahmadi, born in Iran, studied in Ukraine and fled to Germany to live with a colleague when the Russian army bombed Kharkiv

Lee Ufan in a retrospective at the National Art Center, Tokyo: combining natural and artificial materials in large sculptures made of steel sheets flanked by bolders

„Spotlight“ series by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Debunking the Myth of Whiteness“ tells where our image of sculptures comes from and what is behind it

The exhibition “Beyond Hellas: Santiago Calatrava in the Glyptothek“ (through October 23, 2022) features a dialogue between the permanent collection of sculptures and the renowned architect, engineer and artist

The story of the years when Rodin‘s art was first being added to American museum collections is told in an exhibition in Williamstown, MA, until September 2022 and then in Atlanta, GA, until January 2023

Karin van Ommeren lets the colors of the stones shine in her monumental works

The Dutch artist brings the inside of the raw blocks to the outside and even works with boulders

The city of Angoulème has now erected a menhir for Albert Uderzo on the forecourt of its train station, in addition to the obelisk for René Goscinny

In five weeks the two sculptors Morgane Cabusa and François Desforges created the menhir from a rough block of about 14 tons