Statues
Bringing the Color Back to Ancient Greece
The white marble statutes we revere were originally dressed in eye-popping pigments
November 2012 |
By Jamie Katz
Re-envisioning the Statue of Liberty
Sculptor Danh Vo deconstructs the American icon
June 2012 |
By Joseph Stromberg
A Larger-Than-Life Toussaint Louverture
The Haitian revolutionary joins the Smithsonian Museum of African Art's collection
May 2011 |
By Owen Edwards
Sculpting Evolution
A series of statues by sculptor John Gurche brings us face to face with our early ancestors
March 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces
John Gurche, a “paleo-artist,” has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors for a new exhibit
February 25, 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
Ancient Greece Springs to Life
Athens’ New Acropolis Museum comes to America in an exhibition highlighting treasures of antiquity
September 22, 2009 |
By Jamie Katz
Leonardo’s Horse?
New research may shed light on a nearly century-old theory that a sculpture thought to be ancient Greek may be da Vinci’s work
September 18, 2009 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
Return of a Giant
A fully restored VulcanBirmingham, Alabama's 100-year-old statueresumes it's rightful place in town
March 2004 |
By Jeff Book
