Nairy Baghramian Breaks Through With Metropolitan Museum Facade Commission
With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
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Sir Mark Jones put forward as interim director of British Museum
Former head of V&A has suggested Parthenon Marbles could be shared with Greece A former head of the V&A Museum, who previously suggested the Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece, has been put forward as the interim director of the Brit…
Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England
Historians and local people ponder presence of 8ft pole after appeal to find artist unsuccessfulWhen a totem pole mysteriously appeared on a popular coastal path in south-east England, local speculation as to who was responsible for the wooden monolith…
Australia Will Return Looted Sculptures to Cambodia
A centuries-old Buddhist sculpture was taken from a rural area in Cambodia nearly 30 years ago. It was later sold with two other statues to the National Gallery of Australia.
A Victorian Dinosaur Park Finds Its Way in the 21st Century
Statues of extinct animals peek out from the trees, delighting onlookers in this London park. But don’t expect them to be scientifically accurate.
Pistoletto sculpture destroyed in suspected arson attack in Naples
Venus of the Rags, one of the contemporary Italian artist’s most famous works, was burnt to cindersOne of the most famous works by Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags, has been burnt to cinders in a suspected arson at…
Uruguay’s President Halts Plan to Turn Bronze Nazi Eagle Into Peace Dove
President Luis Lacalle Pou said that he was canceling a project to melt down and recast a 700-pound relic of World War II after thousands signed a petition calling for it to be preserved in a museum.
Statue of peace protester Brian Haw to be installed in south London
Bronze maquette of activist who camped outside parliament will be sited opposite Imperial War MuseumA statue of the peace campaigner Brian Haw, who spent 10 years camped outside the Palace of Westminster, is to be installed in south London after a camp…
Eric Gill statue at BBC’s Broadcasting House attacked with hammer
Man in Spider-Man mask scales London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptorA controversial statue by the paedophile sculptor Eric Gill on the front of the BBC’s headquarters has been struck with a hammer in an apparent protest, th…
Freya, the Walrus Killed by Norwegian Officials, Is Immortalized as a Sculpture
The bronze sculpture depicts the walrus on her side and should remind onlookers about the importance of coexisting, the artist said.