Read about Andy Goldsworthy’s sculpture, made for the Oculus of the Getty Institute, Los Angeles. The piece was designed to be ephemeral, but disappeared sooner than intended.
Tag: Ephemeral
Mortality Immortality
Artists and museums have been grappling with questions about ephemeral art for many decades. This book emerged from a conference at the Getty Conservation Institute in 1999, and much of the discussion is still relevant today.
Object, concept, experience? What is it we’re collecting?
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Clare Twomey – The Invisible Vase
Clare Twomey’s artwork The Invisible Vase is formed by the cobweb of lines that maps every break of the restored Portland Vase. The Portland Vase is a litany of material processes and fragility, this is embedded in material, human skills and a continual historic collaboration with new and old technologies. The world renowned Portland Vase sits […]
Permanence/Impermanence: collecting and archiving contemporary clay practices
The three-day conference addresses how artworks in the ‘expanded field of clay’ can be made accessible to current and future audiences. These works may be ephemeral, site-specific, participatory, or live, thereby posing significant challenges for museums. It takes place in the context of important recent work on collecting performance, installation and live art (Tate, 2018-22; […]