THE NEW YORK TIMES
Barry Flanagan, 68, British Sculptor of Sly WorksSEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Barry Flanagan, a British sculptor who abandoned the idiosyncratic arrangements of common materials that characterized Postminimal sculpture to make sly if relatively traditional bronzes of exuberant, loose-limbed hares, died on Aug. 31 in Ibiza, Spain. He was 68 and had homes and studios in Ibiza and Dublin...
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IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Barry Flanagan at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
A major exhibition of the work of the distinguished British-born sculptor Barry Flanagan, best known for his monumental bronze hares, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 28 June 2006. Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005 presents a comprehensive survey of the artist's work over 40 years and comprises 37 installations and sculptures, several of which are being shown in the grounds at...
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THE ART NEWSPAPER
A Tradesman, Not an Artist
Barry Flanagan's new exhibition in New York, his first with Paul Kasmin gallery, is an exuberant fiesta of dancing hares, adorable elephants and acrobatic forms that manages to be comic while also slightly threatening in some mythic, pagan manner. Cast in gleaming bronze, these sculptural sculptures are not shy of their totemic...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Barry Flanagan
The British sculptor Barry Flanagan is known for mock-monumental bronze sculptures featuring the expressionistically modeled image of a leaping hare. He began producing the hare works in the early 1980's, when other artists were also turning away from abstraction to new, often insouciant kinds of....
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PAUL KASMIN GALLERY
When Hares Can Dance and Balance
A hare balances on top of the Empire State Building (p. 90). Yet, in spite of the dizzying height and the danger he is in, he seems not to be...
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