To get the message across about green and environmental issues, Vaughn Bell's "Village Green" exhibit at Mass MoCA. These include actual greenhouses and plants as the heads of human figures. Bell hopes to create awareness and spread news of the urgency of environmental issues.“Approaching landscape from this perspective is a little bit bittersweet,” Bell says. “It’s sad but it’s humorous and maybe just a tiny bit hopeful." Join discussion...

This article featured in the Moment, a section from T-Magazine, on December 2, 2008, is written by Mark Ellwood. He wrote about how Art Basel Miami Beach is opening soon, along with a public art projcet made entirely from sand. The Swedish artist, Olaf Breuning, is creating a sand scuplture of a sphinx-like reclining woman. The scultpre itself weighs over 150 tons. This masterpiece will most likely vanish in a matter of days due to erosion of the wind and sea. However, Breuning is delighted about his project, saying "I’m very proud to be making an art piece you cannot buy. In our time, it’s actually really perfect.” The sculpture can be seen on the beach between Lincoln Road and 17th street in South Beach. Also, there is webcam available to view the progress at www.sagamorehotel.com. Join discussion...

Carole Feuerman spent three years creating her notorious sculpture, Survival of Serena. This four foot by twelve foot sculpture, which was made of resin and oil-painted fiberglass, depicted a woman grasping onto a tube. Feuerman was inspired to create this sculpture by the recent massive flooding in Venice, Italy. Her sculpture was suppposed to be one of the main exhibits at a show in Miami. However, it was somehow completely destroyed on the trip from Italy to Miami. It was flown on Continental Airlines and then transported by a vehicle. No one is sure how the sculpture came to be so destroyed but it was discovered in that condition on November 26 in a warehouse in Miami. Unfortunately for Feuerman, her work was demolished and she will most likely receive only $9,100, rather than the sculpture's $300,000 value. Join discussion...

In 1973, Dalí saw a painting attributed to Goya and decided that he had to have it. The owner Isidro Clot agreed to give the painting to Dalí in return for a contract under which Dalí would make a series of small sculptures for him, and give him the right to reproduce them. Clot paid Dalí $35,000 for each sculpture, which ended up being more than 4 dozens. Isidro Clot could no longer pay Dalí and was forced to partner with Juan Quirós. The sculptures have been enlarged as well as scaled down for reproduction and sale, and as a result a multimillion Dalí sculpture industry was born. As more money was made from this industry, more controversies rose like who had the right to the sculptures. Most people accept that Juan Quirós has the right to the sculptures, but Robert Descharnes who many consider world authority on Dalí sculptures, disagrees. Join discussion...

Huge land art installations over the world are in danger from new hunts for oil and land redistribution as well as simply from nature itself. Land art, an artform involving huge sculptures that are made to stand outside in nature was popularized in the 1960s and 70s. In particular Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty made in 1970 and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels made in 1976 both in Salt Lake, Utah are on land that the government now wants to drill oil on. Additionally Michael Heizer's City in Lincoln County, Nevada is threatened by a new interstate. Even if the drilling and building don't hurt these colossal works of art, the elements still may play a role in their demise. Erosion as well as other natural ailments have been afflicting the sculptures and no organization or museum that claims ownership to the pieces seem to be interested in repairs. Join discussion...

In the middle of a cypress forest at Presidio National Park in San Francisco, Andy Goldsworthy has constructed a 100-ft spire out of logs from that forest. The Monterey cypress trees were felled as part of a reforestation project- Presidio Trust officials plan to plant 25,000 trees on the 150 acre land over 30 years. This project is slightly more monumental in scale than much of Goldsworthy's work, but the intention is no less organic. He hopes that as the new forest grows around the towering spires, they will fade into the trees, becoming part of the landscape. The artist plans to erect 3 spires total. Join discussion...

A 19-year old created a "mug-shot style sticker." It was composed of random materials like wood and graffiti. Street artists' art are now being accepted in well known museums. Join discussion...

The Storm King Art Center is featured in this article for its stunning and colossal sculptures which spread across its landscape. Storm King is located in the upper Hudson River Valley in the State of New York. There is a tram ride which takes viewers through the highlights of the park in about 30 minutes which was highly recommended by the author of the article. In addition to the continual commissioning of new work, The Storm King Art Center contains the original thirteen works by David Smith that it was founded on. Overall, it was a positive review for Storm King. Join discussion...

Tara Donovan is an artist who creates pieces by taking thousands of little things like plastic cups and pencils and making sculptures with them. Her art has been shown in New York for several years, and much of her art must be reconstructed every time it is shown. Some of her pieces include "Nebulous," a piece created with 100 rolls of scotch tape; "Untitled (Glass)," a cube of glass made by stacking layers of glass and then breaking them into tiny shards; and "Untitled (Plastic Cups)," a piece created by stacking millions of plastic cups into swaying piles that create the appearance of waves. Join discussion...

The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum found in California that is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. In March of this year, the Getty Villa hosted a show called "The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture From Antiquity to the Present", focusing on the use of color throught the ages. Contrary to popular belief, the sculpture of the ancient world was very colorful, with statues and decorative objects covered in bright pigments intended to add to their realistic qualities. But curator Roberta Panzanelli explains that it was in fact the Renaissance and the Neoclassical era- the two major time periods of classical revival- that formed our understanding of ancient sculpture, and neither was particularly disposed to color. Join discussion...