Sculpture

In the Galleries - The River Between Us at Laumeier Sculpture Park

The Ice Is Right

The St. Louis Soundtrack of Laumeier Sculpture Park: Review of the Site/Sound Exhibit

In a year when local bands have formed new partnerships or reconstituted old ones through DIY festivals, home-grown record labels and subscription seven-inch series, the sheer scope of Eric Hall's Site/Sound project demands respect. For the past year, experimental instrumentalist Hall has been in re ... More >>

72 St. Louis Musicians Record the Soundtrack for Laumeier Sculpture Park

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship This weekend, the Site/Sound exhibition opens at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Local electronic sensei Eric Hal ... More >>

In the Galleries - Camp Out: Finding Home in an Unstable World CLOSES September 16 at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Laumeier Sculpture Park Announces Partnership with Schlafly Beer

Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road Street; 314-615-5278) recently announced a new partnership with Schlafly Beer. We spoke with Jackie Chambers, development officer at Laumeier and Susan Haberer, event coordinator at Schlafly, to find out exactly how beer and art will merge, two things quite r ... More >>

PBS Puts the "P" in Party

Artists in Temporary Residence

Ceramic Manipulation

Eric Hall Laumeier Performance Video

Photo by Jamie Lees​Eric Hall's creative takeover of the Laumeier Sculpture Park hit an early high point this weekend with his performance in the Park's Cromlech Glen. It's a spot he says has inspired him as an artist for years, and his half-hour set on Saturday was nothing if not respectful ... More >>

Eric Hall Announces Residency, Concert At Laumeier Sculpture Park

Mabel SuenEric Hall performs at KDHX for experimental show Wrong Division (Hosted by the author and photographer)​​As a teenager, Eric Hall would sneak into Laumeier Sculpture Park before dawn to capture the disparate sound of insects and animals as they woke with the rising sun. On November 12t ... More >>

High Concept, High Tech

Hot Dogs

Woodn't It Be Nice

Knit Your Typical Saturday

Reflected Territories: hoopSnake

This Is Big

Citygarden Opened This Week in Downtown St. Louis

This is slightly off-topic from music, but still worth mentioning: Citygarden, a sculpture garden between Market and Chestnut and 8th and 10th streets downtown, opened yesterday. It's very cool -- I suggest you check it out. Here's a story I wrote last week, and a post featuring lots of photos right ... More >>

Ice Carve-Nival

Cold cuts and hot chocolate

Laumeier, After Dark

The Lure of Sculpture

We All Fall Down, Indeed

Sculpture Culture

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Renewal from the Inside Out

Laumeier does it right

A Child Shall Lead Them

A lesson in how to wake up St. Louis to its trove of public art

Sculpture Shock

SLU president Lawrence Biondi says he leased his Trova from the city fair and square, for $10 a year. Others beg to differ.

The Humid Touch

The Pulitzer gives Serra's "Joe" a few weeks' rust and relaxation

Arts and Sciences

In a rare treat, sculptor Ron Leax exhibits in a local gallery

Save the Earth

The earthwork "Cromlech Glen" and Laumeier Sculpture Park receive needed restoration

Best Place to See the Sky

Richard Serra's "Joe," Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

SLU of Despond

And Biondi's sculpture park is ugly, too

Wasted Space

St. Louis University restores a beautiful building to display terrible art

Jeffersonian Ideals

An art exhibition gets made without any art administrators

Good Things Come in 3-D

Thanks to the University City Sculpture Series, you don't have to go to a gallery to find good art

Emmy Award

Emily Pulitzer's gift to St. Louis has arrived in a concrete box. Hidden inside: the portrait of a woman who changed the city.

A Woman Scorned

Former Laumeier Director Beej Nierengarten-Smith points fingers and names names in her parting shot from THE Sculpture Park. She lets it fly, and some of it sticks.

Extolling Stone

An exhibition of contemporary African sculpture at the Missouri Botanical Gardens goes far to adjust preconceived notions of the continent's art

Pomo-mentum

New exhibits by Peter Doig and Stephan Balkenhol further postmodernism's progress

Best Ice Carver

David Van Camp, Ice Visions

House Forgotten

Laumeier Sculpture Park renders one artwork a "house of memories" in more than just name

THE COLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Ice sculptor David Van Camp plans to freeze audiences in their tracks at St. Charles' Fête de Glace

QUEEN BEEJ

Beej Nierengarten-Smith runs Laumeier Sculpture Park like her personal fiefdom. Despite the damage she's done, powerful allies keep her in charge.

YOU WANT NEWS? TURN TO THE EDITORIAL PAGE

It takes a Post-Dispatch editorial to deliver the news on Laumeier Sculpture Park

PEPPER GAME

Laumeier Sculpture Park director Beej Nierengarten-Smith broke all the rules and ordered the removal of Beverly Pepper's "Cromlech Glen." Then the artist heard about it.

SOAR SUBJECT

Whether he works in Cor-Ten steel, bronze or stainless steel, Richard Hunt's abstract works --now on display at Laumeier Sculpture Park -- are expressive and confident; also, Jiro Okura setsfree an invisible force of nature in his camphor-laurel sculptu

Public Exchange

Artist Mary Miss' plan for the space next to the new Federal Courthouse is vastly different from the statues and monolithic sculptures of the past. It's public art that actually keeps the public in mind.

Suite Art