Vinnie Ream: Should a Teenage Girl Sculpt Abraham Lincoln?
Vinnie Ream became the first woman to win a US government commission for a statue in 1866—at the age of 18! She created a life-sized figure of...
Kathie Manthorne 4 September 2025
Sculpture
Not All There—The Enigmatic Sculptures of Bruno Catalano
Celebrating Marseille’s designation as the European Capital of Culture in 2013, Bruno Catalano crafted 10 life-size bronze sculptures installed...
Nadine Waldmann 1 September 2025
Wild Women of the Waves – Art of Ships Figureheads
A figurehead is a carved and painted figure ornamenting the bow of a ship (that’s the front to us landlubbers!). For thousands of years, people...
Candy Bedworth 25 August 2025
Masterpiece Story: Ramesses II
The statue of Ramesses II is a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian sculpture that proclaims the royal majesty and prowess of Ramesses the...
James W Singer 24 August 2025
Masterpiece Story: Triad of Osorkon II
Triad of Osorkon II is a masterpiece of jewelry, goldsmithing, and ancient Egyptian...
James W Singer 24 August 2025
César Baldaccini: Master of Compression
César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, was a prominent French sculptor of the 1960s. He created large sculptures formed by compressing...
Caroline Galambosova 21 August 2025
Tom Wesselmann in 5 Striking Pop Art Masterpieces
Tom Wesselmann rose to prominence during the Pop Art movement, though he rejected the label himself. While many Pop artists used familiar objects to...
Errika Gerakiti 14 August 2025
Forever Young: The Ancient Greek Kouros and Kore
The iconic Classical Greek statues depicting male and female bodies set the standards for numerous artists and art movements to come. Preceding the...
Nadine Waldmann 12 August 2025
Does London Value Animals More than Women? 10 Statues of Amazing Women in the City
Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of...
Candy Bedworth 11 August 2025
From Specimen to Contemporary Taxidermy
There are many media through which artists can express their own vision, approach their aesthetic feeling, and capture the reality that vanishes in...
Caroline Galambosova 4 August 2025
Abakans—The New Humans of Magdalena Abakanowicz
I can see a group of approximately 250 people, all of them standing. Children and adults. I come closer and I realize they have no heads. I come even...
Magda Michalska 1 August 2025
On the Tracks of the Gunter Demnig’s Stumbling Stones
“There must be a Jew buried here”—this was a phrase commonly uttered by some Germans before World War II, when they stumbled over a stone in...
Montaine Dumont 28 July 2025
