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Identity has always been at the center of British artist Gillian Wearing’s work, and My Charms (2021) distills that lifelong fascination into an oversized charm bracelet displayed on a monumental scale. A close look reveals that its dangling charms aren’t tiny hearts, keys, or lucky horseshoes — they are deeply personal 3D-printed fragments of the artist herself.
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If you’ve been in Madison Square Park lately — especially on the east side along Madison Avenue — it would be hard to miss the enormous Orange Fire Hydrant rising above the landscape near the children playground. At nearly 15 feet tall, the oversized sculpture immediately catches the eye, inviting smiles from everyone who can’t resist wondering what an ordinary piece of New York City infrastructure is doing transformed into a monumental work of art.
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Leave it to the Haas Brothers to turn a lamp into a conversation piece, which is certainly the case with Small Sloan (2016), a striking work by the duo currently on view in Uncanny Valley at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Crafted from blown glass, aluminum tiles, and electrical lighting components, the piece blurs the line between functional lighting and contemporary sculpture.
At first glance, Small Sloan resembles a strange organism rising from the ocean floor. Its reflective aluminum body branches upward into graceful, elongated stems that support clusters of delicate blown-glass forms. When illuminated, the translucent glass catches and diffuses the light, casting shimmering reflections that ripple across the surrounding walls and giving the sculpture an almost otherworldly glow.
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Before his passing in 2025, Joel Shapiro spent decades redefining what abstract sculpture could be. His monumental work Ark stands as a powerful example of that vision. At first glance, the sculpture appears to have been frozen in the middle of an explosion. Bold planes of red, blue, and yellow thrust outward at unexpected angles, balancing in a way that seems to defy gravity. Installed directly on the floor rather than elevated on a pedestal, the work encourages viewers to circle it and experience its constantly shifting presence. Depending on where you stand, it can suggest a vessel in motion, a collapsing structure, a child’s stack of oversized blocks, or even a figure striding through space.
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Isamu Noguchi on top of Slide Mantra at Isamu Noguchi: What is Sculpture?, Venice Biennale, June 29–September 28, 1986 (Photo: Shigeo Anzai)
Founded by celebrated sculptor Isamu Noguchi, the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum is revisiting one of the artist’s most daring and debated exhibitions with Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi’s 1986 Venice Biennale, on view now through September 13, 2026. The archival exhibition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Noguchi’s groundbreaking presentation at the 1986 Venice Biennale, where he became the first solo artist to represent the United States in the U.S. Pavilion.
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