Next week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) will install the French artist Pierre Huyghe’s live bee sculpture Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) (2012) in its outdoor garden, from 16 June through 15 August.
The work is a concrete figure of a female nude with a live bee colony as the head. It was seen earlier this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of a travelling retrospective on the artist, and MoMA acquired an edition in March (one of five, plus artist's proof).
The sculpture will probably generate more buzz (sorry) than Huyghe’s other major installation in New York—a new commission for the Metropolitan Museum’s rooftop garden. That piece, featuring a tank holding a large rock and brightly coloured fish, is on view until 1 November.