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.
Sculpture
Now that is surreal … famous Dalí sculptures to hit streets of English market town
Shrewsbury hails unexpected coup of loan of major works by Spanish surrealistA melting watch; a telephone receiver that is really a lobster: the art of surrealism is all about such unlikely juxtapositions. So how about putting the original work of Salv…
How a Terra-Cotta Warrior Lost Its Thumb to a Delaware Shoe Salesman
Michael Rohana stole the clay digit six years ago at a Philadelphia museum where he had been attending an ugly-sweater party. He pleaded guilty this week.
Nymph statue defaced with crayon at National Trust property
Charity ‘dismayed’ over incident at Croome Court in Worcestershire, and Capability Brown memorial also vandalisedThe National Trust has been left “dismayed” by the scrawling of blue crayon over a two-centuries-old statue in Worcestershire.On Saturday, …
Pope Francis returns three fragments of Parthenon to Greece
Carved heads of a boy, a horse and a bearded man, formerly in Vatican Museums, unveiled in AthensThe desire of Pope Francis to right a wrong has led to the official return to Greece from the Vatican of three ornately carved fragments that once adorned …
Boris Johnson recites Oompa-Loompas song in defence of Roald Dahl’s books
Ex-PM criticises sensitivity edit of author’s works – and also rejects sending Parthenon marbles to GreeceBoris Johnson has criticised a publisher’s rewriting of some language in Roald Dahl’s stories by reciting a song by the Oompa-Loompas.The former p…
NY Met to let French make 3D copies of two 16th-century sculptures
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will let French artisans make 3D replicas of the sculpture ‘Pieta With Donors’ for display in the chateau where it and another 16th-century sculpture originally residedNew York (AFP) – Two 16th-century sculptures,…
Raging Bull to be given home at Birmingham New Street station
Mechanical centrepiece of city’s 2022 Commonwealth Games will be installed permanently this summerThe mechanical bull which formed the centrepiece of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony is to be given a permanent home in the city’s …
Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London set to sell for £7m
Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Italian sculptorSometimes a hunch pays off, and when the English painter John Craxton recognised a work of genius for sale in a London antiques shop, he made…
Artist asks British Museum to return Assyrian treasure to Iraq in swap
Sculptor Michael Rakowitz says he will give his fourth-plinth bull to Tate Modern if Iraq can share custodyThe Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has proposed in a letter to the British Museum that it return one of its ancient Assyrian treasures to…