Mar 04 Watch 5:30 Once banished, controversial race exhibit resurfaces at Chicago museum By Megan Thompson, tritzenthaler In a new exhibit, Chicago's Field Museum has revived elements from its controversial 1933 show, "Races of Mankind," consisting of 104 bronze statues that depict races from around the world. Most of the statues were banished by 1969 as public… Continue watching
Feb 05 Europe’s first underwater museum offers a stark reminder of the refugee crisis By Corinne Segal Strap into your scuba gear -- this underwater museum is wortha dive. Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch 6:02 Vestiges of an ancient Greek art form, preserved by catastrophe By PBS News Hour Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today. About a quarter of those are gathered in an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art called "Power… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch 6:02 How Picasso overturned the rules of sculpture By PBS News Hour Pablo Picasso, preeminent artist of the 20th century, is known far better for his painting than for his sculpture, but a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York celebrates his playful and transformational experiments in three… Continue watching
Sep 01 Video: A six-story sculpture comes down in two minutes By Jerome Weeks, KERA Artist Mark di Suvero's "Proverb" sculpture was 60 feet tall and stood at the corner of Woodall Rodgers and Pearl Street in Dallas, T.X. for nearly 13 years. Continue reading
Dec 23 Maryland sculptor turns nature’s flow into furniture By Maryland Public Television Using a self-taught technique, David Knopp carves plywood laminate into fantastically abstract shapes, imbuing the rigid nature of wood with the fluidity of water. Continue reading
Nov 02 Watch ‘It’s like choreography:’ Calder’s sculpture continues to captivate By PBS News Hour Alexander Calder was one of the modern masters of art -- breaking the mold on sculpture in the 20th century. Nearly 40 years after his death, Calder's work continues to captivate. WGBH's Arts Editor Jared Bowen sat down recently with… Continue watching
Sep 23 Dallas artist creates rainbows with 60 miles of thread By Alison Jardine, KERA Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe makes physically imposing and yet nebulous sculpture of thread stretched between points on the ceiling and points on the floor. He creates a multifaceted geometric shape, the color changing like a rainbow as the viewer’s eye… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch ‘Obsessive’ artist builds sculptures out of 40 miles of sewing thread By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 08 With knives and hammers, Pakistani sculptor chisels away at taboos for women By Laila Kazmi, KCTS Humaira Abid is a sculptor and painter. Based in the Seattle area, she spends several months out of each year in Lahore, Pakistan, where she grew up and still maintains her main studio. Her work is a reflection of her… Continue reading