Art of the Brick – Nathan Sawaya’s Lego Works
Lego springs to mind as one of the key toys of many people’s childhoods. Whether building houses, spacecrafts or just stepping on that elusive...
Nadine Waldmann 27 March 2019
Sculpture
Into the Abyss: The Forgotten Pietro Canonica
A prominent, famous, and revered artist in his lifetime, Pietro Canonica has been relegated to the sidelines of Italian art history. Skilled and...
Nadine Waldmann 1 February 2019
Untitled & Unbridled: Tara Donovan’s Installations
Styrofoam cups, pencils, rubber bands and straws are not the kinds of materials usually associated with art installations, yet these mundane,...
Nadine Waldmann 22 December 2018
Masterpiece Story: Eagle by Alexander Calder
American sculptor, Alexander Calder, most famous for his kinetic moving, suspended mobile sculptures, also created a number of massive stationary...
Nadine Waldmann 25 September 2018
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus, has fascinated...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 27 August 2018
Picasso Sighting in New York City—He’s Mowing his Lawn
I looked across the street and saw Pablo Picasso mowing his lawn. He was ten feet tall. He was inside a fence, which was unusual, and the expression...
Howard Schwartz 7 June 2018
The Real Story of the Goddess Gifs
People are going crazy over these goddess gifs – 24 ancient female statues shaking what their mothers gave them. Artist Nina Paley created the...
Alexandra Kiely 27 January 2018
Liza Lou Beading the World…One Tiny Bead at a Time
When I was in high school, my art teacher told the class to visit Liza Lou’s art exhibit. I agreed and seriously it was one of the top five...
Rachel Istvan 13 October 2017
Anish Kapoor On The Scale Of The Sculpture
Sir Anish Kapoor is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 August 2017
Masterpieces of Minimalism by Robert Morris
What do you get when you strip art of metaphor, representation, or metaphysics? It turns out that even if “what you see is what you see,” as...
Piotr Policht 20 February 2017
