Art
Revisiting the First American Folk Art Museum, Founded by a Modernist Sculptor
The rough finishes and loose poses of Elie Nadelman's sculptures of circus performers, pianists, and dancers were influenced by his incredible collection of folk art.
Sculpture
Books
The Life of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Nude Models
"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.
Art
Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time
Even a plank of wood has kinetic possibilities in the art of Tim Hawkinson.
Art
A Tactile Tour of Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham's 1940s Dance Sets
For over three decades, Martha Graham danced her most compelling choreography on and around the abstract sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.
Art
The Unsung Female Muses of New York's Public Sculpture
New York City is seriously lacking in sculptures of historic women, with just five among the hundreds of bronzes and granite monuments in the five boroughs. Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women emb
In Brief
A Skull Carved from a Meteorite Lands on the Auction Block
The skull is a universal symbol of mortality, appearing in artworks by everyone from Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Art
Pablo Picasso, Now in 3D
It's hard to get excited for another Pablo Picasso exhibition. He is, after all, the Steven Spielberg of European modernism — flashy, prolific, proficient at a vast range of genres, and overrepresented in the mainstream cultural canon.
Art
A Granite Sculptor's Last and Largest Work Completed in His Memory
On June 15, Jesús Moroles was driving from his home in Rockport, Texas, to Chickasha, Oklahoma, to continue work on the largest granite project of his career when he was killed in a car crash.
Art
Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
Art
The 19th-Century Slave Sculpture that Exposed Americans to Nudity in Art
The first nude sculpture of a woman widely seen by the American public depicted a slave, just decades before the Civil War.
Art
The Luminous Plastic of an Underappreciated Light and Space Artist
To create translucent sculptures in the colossal proportions he desired, De Wain Valentine needed a new type of plastic.
In Brief
Plans for Mammoth Mother Canada Memorial Provoke Outrage
There's something about pristine, mountainous landscapes that has inspired some of the tackiest public monuments in recent decades.