Organization
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Comment on Facebook Established in 1950, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum features unique indoor and outdoor venues, allowing visitors to celebrate and explore contemporary sculpture and art across 35 acres. Outside, deCordova’s Sculpture Park hosts more than 60 works at any time, and is open from dawn to dusk 365 days of the year. Inside, the Museum features a robust slate of rotating exhibitions and innovative interpretive programming. DeCordova is committed to exhibiting high-quality, accessible art of nationally and internationally recognized artists, while also maintaining a strong relationship with established and emerging New England artists. Audiences of all ages and backgrounds can view, discover, and learn about modern and contemporary art through deCordova’s exhibitions, programs, interactive tours and activities, classes, talks, and events. DeCordova offers one of the largest non-degree granting studio art programs in New England, enrolling approximately 2,000 students in various classes and workshops throughout the year and also maintains a Permanent Collection of approximately 3,400 works.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: 781-259-8355 | Email | Official Website
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Current Events
05/26/12-
08/12/12 |
PLATFORM 9: Jedediah Caesar
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26-August 12, 2012
Los Angeles-based artist Jedediah Caesar creates sculptures from amassed and congealed materials that speak to process, temporality, and location in contemporary art. Filling containers with found objects from a specific site—a road trip through California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, or his own studio—Caesar collects and recombines a variable grouping of natural and man-made refuse which he sets in resin and then slices. The result is a compression and reorganization of time...
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05/26/12-
08/12/12 |
Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26-August 12, 2012
Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans, on view May 26–August 12, 2012, is the British sculptor's first solo American museum exhibition. An exciting and established young contemporary sculptor in England, Webb is well known for his use, often in a single artwork, of myriad materials including steel, aluminum, glass, mirror, plastic, brass, wood, brick, spray paint, fabrics, and assorted found objects. For Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans, deCordova will present a survey of Webb’s recent work including two new...
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05/26/12-
04/21/13 |
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26, 2012-April 21, 2013
Abstract photography challenges our popular view of photography as an objective image of reality by reasserting its constructed nature. In Walter Benjamin’s essay on the history of photography, the philosopher and critical theorist articulates photography’s ‘second nature’ as its inherent ability to detach and abstract the visible from the real. Non-representational photography lives in this contested middle ground between material reality and photographic...
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09/18/11-
07/29/12 |
PLATFORM 8: Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel, Capturing Resonance
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
September 18, 2011-July 29, 2012
In their first collaboration, sculptor Soo Sunny Park and sound artist and composer Spencer Topel have transformed deCordova’s Window Gallery into a multi-sensory environment. In Capturing Resonance, the eighth project in the PLATFORM series, Park and Topel have composed a large-scale installation that utilizes the intense natural light in the gallery with the flow of museum visitors through this transitional space to create an ever-changing sculptural soundscape.
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Upcoming Events
| 07/28/12 |
One-Day Sculpture Park Installation: Office of Blame Accountability
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
July 28, 2012
Office of Blame Accountability with Carla Repice and Geoff Cunningham
Who do you blame? And for what? And what are you accountable for in this predicament? The Office of Blame Accountability was established by political artist and activist collaborative team, Carla Repice and Geoff Cunningham to determine just that. Situated in the heart of Copley Square in front of Trinity Church on Friday, July 27 and sited as an interactive sculpture at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum...
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| 08/04/12 |
One-Day Sculpture Park Installation: Back to the Land
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
August 4, 2012
Institute of Infinitely Small Things with Aleta Deyo and Mikhail Mansion
Come be part of the one-day interactive art piece Back to the Land. This collaboration between performers, costume designers, and electronics wizards will outfit the Sculpture Park in a giant hot-pink cloak that invites you in to become one with the land, providing a unique experience as you contemplate your place in nature.
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Current &
Upcoming Events
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Current Events
05/26/12-
08/12/12 |
PLATFORM 9: Jedediah Caesar
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26-August 12, 2012
Los Angeles-based artist Jedediah Caesar creates sculptures from amassed and congealed materials that speak to process, temporality, and location in contemporary art. Filling containers with found objects from a specific site—a road trip through California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, or his own studio—Caesar collects and recombines a variable grouping of natural and man-made refuse which he sets in resin and then slices. The result is a compression and reorganization of time...
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05/26/12-
08/12/12 |
Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26-August 12, 2012
Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans, on view May 26–August 12, 2012, is the British sculptor's first solo American museum exhibition. An exciting and established young contemporary sculptor in England, Webb is well known for his use, often in a single artwork, of myriad materials including steel, aluminum, glass, mirror, plastic, brass, wood, brick, spray paint, fabrics, and assorted found objects. For Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans, deCordova will present a survey of Webb’s recent work including two new...
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05/26/12-
04/21/13 |
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 26, 2012-April 21, 2013
Abstract photography challenges our popular view of photography as an objective image of reality by reasserting its constructed nature. In Walter Benjamin’s essay on the history of photography, the philosopher and critical theorist articulates photography’s ‘second nature’ as its inherent ability to detach and abstract the visible from the real. Non-representational photography lives in this contested middle ground between material reality and photographic...
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09/18/11-
07/29/12 |
PLATFORM 8: Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel, Capturing Resonance
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
September 18, 2011-July 29, 2012
In their first collaboration, sculptor Soo Sunny Park and sound artist and composer Spencer Topel have transformed deCordova’s Window Gallery into a multi-sensory environment. In Capturing Resonance, the eighth project in the PLATFORM series, Park and Topel have composed a large-scale installation that utilizes the intense natural light in the gallery with the flow of museum visitors through this transitional space to create an ever-changing sculptural soundscape.
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Upcoming Events
| 07/28/12 |
One-Day Sculpture Park Installation: Office of Blame Accountability
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
July 28, 2012
Office of Blame Accountability with Carla Repice and Geoff Cunningham
Who do you blame? And for what? And what are you accountable for in this predicament? The Office of Blame Accountability was established by political artist and activist collaborative team, Carla Repice and Geoff Cunningham to determine just that. Situated in the heart of Copley Square in front of Trinity Church on Friday, July 27 and sited as an interactive sculpture at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum...
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| 08/04/12 |
One-Day Sculpture Park Installation: Back to the Land
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
August 4, 2012
Institute of Infinitely Small Things with Aleta Deyo and Mikhail Mansion
Come be part of the one-day interactive art piece Back to the Land. This collaboration between performers, costume designers, and electronics wizards will outfit the Sculpture Park in a giant hot-pink cloak that invites you in to become one with the land, providing a unique experience as you contemplate your place in nature.
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