Sculpture
Over the holiday week, I took a trip to Corning, New York, home of the Corning Museum of Glass. My primary intention was to see the collection of antique microscopes on exhibit (and featured in our…
The Galerie Templon in Paris is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota from May 20 through July 22, 2017. The performance and installation artist is known for her room…
Ever feel like your home is overwhelmed with books? (No? Really?) Well, Spanish artist Alicia Martin has taken inspiration from book sprawl and created massive outdoor sculptures that suggest the…
"Artist Marta Minujín describes how seeing the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on her return to Argentina from New York many years ago prompted a series of large-scale works that demystify popular monuments…
"Through photography and sculpture, Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi explores the history and memory of architecture. In her series Double Monument for Flavin and Tatlin (2010–2016), Pousttchi…
"Special guests Lonnie Holley, Danny Glover, Paul Arnett, and Delroy Lindo comment on de Young's special exhibition, Revelations: Art from the African American South, on view through April 1, 2018…
"LACMA’s Artists on Art videos offer insights into works in the museum’s encyclopedic collection that have inspired and informed artists working today. Looking at art through their eyes, we hear…
"Anne L. Poulet, Director Emerita of The Frick Collection, introduces the current exhibition 'Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion,' on view at the Frick until April 5, 2015.…
"More than 3,000 funerary portraits from ancient Palmyra survive in museums around the world, bringing us face to face with people who lived in Syria almost two millennia ago."
Credit: The Getty
"In conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, on view June 13, 2017–February 4, 2018, this video features time-lapse photography of bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV…
"Rembrandt Bugatti — brother of Ettore Bugatti, founder of the eponymous automobile company — was a brilliant sculptor of animals. Touched by the story of Bugatti’s premature death, the actor Alain…
"This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton."
Credit: Christie's
"‘This object is 2,500 years old, preserved miraculously by the Egyptian desert,’ explains specialist Laetitia Delaloye, discussing a ‘beautiful’ cast of a cat, adorned, unexpectedly, with a pair of…
Standing 9 inches high, the Guennol Stargazer is one of the finest and largest preserved Anatolian marble female idols of Kiliya type.
"The Guennol Stargazer is from the Chalcolithic period, between…
"Carved for the tomb of a king, and shrouded in mystery for more than 200 years, the Beauneveu Lions were commissioned in the 14th century by Charles V of France for his tomb at the abbey of St.…
