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The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is a sculpture park and contemporary art museum on the southern shore of Flint's Pond in Lincoln, Massachusetts, 20 miles northwest of Boston. It was established in 1950, and is the largest park of its kind in New England, encompassing 30 acres.
Julian de Cordova (January 2, 1851 – November 23, 1945) was an American businessman and art collector. He bought the Union Glass Company in 1893, and was its president until its 1924 closure. He donated the land on which the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum now stands in Lincoln, Massachusetts .
Use and design of rooms in the museum interior. Plan or layout of rooms as related to exhibits, or historical architectural layout for original building use. May be named Design, Galleries, Interior and exhibitions, Collections, or Exhibitions. Permanent, travelling or rotating, present and past collections can also be mentioned.
His work is scattered throughout New England, including the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, South Boston Maritime Park, Harvard Square, MBTA Alewife station, Lowell, and several other locations in the greater Boston area; most recently, at the Stamford Courthouse in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Trojan Piggybank by Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson, 2004, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Arts on the Point, Boston; Butler Sculpture Park, Sheffield; Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln; Forest Hills Trust, Boston; List Visual Arts Center (MIT campus), Cambridge
Lime Green Icicle Tower is a 2011 glass and steel sculpture by American artist Dale Chihuly.Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, it has been on display in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard since the 2011 exhibit "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass".
This exhibit was a critical and media success as reported in Time [3] and Newsweek, [4] presenting the public with a show dedicated to a "New Art". Critical labels for the art included "ABC art," "reductive art" and "Minimalism," [5] though these labels were all roundly rejected by the artists themselves, notably Donald Judd.