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NEWS ABOUT: sculpture

sculpture stories: 19 news summaries

(Newser) - Controversial artist Banksy has mounted a huge show at his hometown Bristol City Museum—but the secretive vandal is nowhere to be seem, the Times of London reports. The exhibition was planned in secret through Banksy’s representatives. “We couldn’t even tell the council and the whole... More »

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entertainment • art • England • sculpture • painting • Bristol • graffiti • Banksy • exhibition • Jay-ZTV • Bristol City Museum

(Newser) - Did Michelangelo actually create a small (16-inch) wooden carving of a crucified Jesus or did the Italian government get taken for a $4 million ride? Some experts believe passionately that the piece, now on exhibit in Naples, is the work of the master. But as the BBC reports, others blast... More »

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art • Italy • sculpture • Christ • culture • Florence • Michelangelo • Jesus Christ • crucifiction

 Hipster Jesus Unveiled 

Jesus given jeans and a trim for British church's new statue

May 14, 09 2:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Catholic church in Britain has given Jesus a 21st century makeover, the Daily Telegraph reports. Uckfield Catholic Church's "Jesus in Jeans" sculpture, to be hoisted to the top of its bell tower this week, depicts a rockin' Jesus with a trim haircut and sporting baggy jeans. The design... More »

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church • sculpture • statue • jeans • Britain • Jesus Christ • Jay-ZTV

 Jacko Has Boyish Taste in Art 

Neverland property loaded with sculptures of boys

Mar 13, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson is fighting to keep his possessions off the auction block, and now we know why. TMZ has a list of everything on his Neverland ranch property, and it includes lots of creepy-sounding art. Among the pieces: "boy with accordion," "boy sitting on bricks," "... More »

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art • auction • sculpture • Michael Jackson • boy • Neverland Ranch

 'Demon Horse' 
 Divides Denver 

Critics stampede to complain about sculptire of 32-foot mustang with blazing red eyes

Feb 7, 09 10:11 AM CST
(Newser) - A fierce controversy has reared up in Denver over a gigantic blue mustang that looms at the gateway to the city's airport, reports the Wall Street Journal. Naysayers complain that a "terrifying" 32-foot sculpture with glowing red eyes isn't the kind of first impression Denver should be giving visitors.... More »

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Denver • art • sculpture • Denver International Airport

 Iraq Takes Down 
 Shoe Sculpture 

Government rejects monument's 'political motives'

Jan 30, 09 3:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The large, shoe-shaped sculpture made to honor an Iraqi journalist’s gesture of defiance against former President Bush was removed from the garden of a Tikrit orphanage just a day after it was put up, CNN reports. The government requested the removal, and sent police to supervise. “We will... More »

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Iraq • shoes • sculpture • Tikrit • orphanage • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Muntadar al-Zaidi

(AP) - Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed the Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV series Leave It to Beaver, will have one of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre. Several sculptors from the Karen Lynne Gallery, including Dow,... More »

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television • sculpture • The Louvre

Vatican Objects to Image of Frog on Crucifix

Calls it 'desecration,' but Italian museum won't take it down

Aug 28, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite objections from the pope, a sculpture of a crucified frog will continue to hang in an Italian museum, board officials said today. The Vatican slammed the work, called Feet First, as a blasphemous attack on Christianity. But museum officials cited artistic freedom and said its German creator considered the... More »

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art museum • Pope Benedict XVI • art • Italy • Vatican • sculpture • Catholicism

NY Sculptor Builds Fortune Out of Legos

Making art for Trump, others generates 6-figure income

Aug 18, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - For New York artist Nathan Sawaya, earning a six-figure salary is child's play. That's because Sawaya makes his living creating arresting sculptures from Lego blocks. Once a stressed-out Wall Street attorney, he began building the whimsical pieces at night as a way to unwind. Now, he tells Portfolio, he gets... More »

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entertainment • Donald Trump • art • sculpture • Lego • Conde Nast • Pete Wentz • Nathan Sawaya

Stumbling Museum Visitor Smashes $12K Sculpture

Ceramic Costa Rican totem at summer exhibition shatters to floor

Jul 29, 08 3:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 9-foot ceramic totem was smashed to smithereens after a visitor to London's Royal Academy lost her balance yesterday and tumbled into the work, the Guardian reports. The "Five Frauleins" in the work by a noted Costa Rican sculptor now number four. Museum officials are discussing the damage with... More »

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art • sculpture • artist • London's Royal Academy • gallery • Tracey Emin

Architects Vie for Best Wobble

Abandoning profession's firm foundations, designers cook up gelatin gems

Jun 7, 08 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t accuse them of playing with their food; the finalists in the 2008 London Festival of Architecture’s Jelly Design Contest aren’t fooling around. Using what Americans would call gelatin, “a vast range of architectural motifs and techniques have been used to spectacular effect,” an event... More »

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food • architecture • England • design • sculpture • University College London

Panel Rips MLK Statue, Says He Looks Like a Dictator

Fed commission calls 28-foot sculpture too much like totalitarian art

May 9, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal arts panel is demanding changes to a colossal statue of Martin Luther King Jr. planned for the heart of Washington because commissioners think King looks too "confrontational," almost like a dictator, reports the Washington Post. The 28-foot-tall statue is to be the centerpiece of a 4-acre... More »

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Washington DC • sculpture • National Mall • statue • monument • Martin Luther King Jr.

Sculpture Thieves Seek Scrap Metal

Commodity prices driving thefts; more artists steering clear

May 1, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A wave of sculpture thefts has little to do with the pieces’ artistic merit: Police believe they’ve been stolen for their valuable copper content, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the past 18 months, three public artworks displayed in Brea, Calif., have disappeared—and the trend is appearing across... More »

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art • sculpture • commodities • public sculpture • copper • art heist

OPINION

Cubs Unveil Statue, See Error of They're Ways

Team immortalizes Banks; fans take up proofreading

Apr 2, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich didn't even have to ask: A Cubs representative greeted her with "We're going to fix it. That's all I can say." And sure enough, less than 24 hours after the unveiling of a statue honoring legendary infielder Ernie Banks, the legend on its... More »

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MLB • Chicago Cubs • sculpture • Wrigley Field • baseball • Ernie Banks • Mary Schmich • Lou Cella

Aaaay! Milwaukee to Cast Fonz
in Bronze

Art gallery closes
in disgust

Jan 25, 08 2:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Milwaukee’s about to get way cooler. Thanks to private donations and teenagers who bought “Bronze the Fonz” T-shirts, the tourist bureau has raised $85,000 to erect a permanent bronze tribute to Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker in the Milwaukee-set '70s hit sitcom “Happy Days.... More »

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television • Wisconsin • Milwaukee • art • sculpture • statue • public art

Lion Sculpture Fetches Record Price at Auction

3¼-inch Guennol Lioness goes for $57M, nearly double last mark

Dec 6, 07 1:23 PM CST
(Newser) - A limestone sculpture of a lioness standing at only 3¼ inches sold at auction in New York yesterday for $57 million, smashing the record price for a sculpture, the BBC reports. The Guennol Lioness, believed to have been carved 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Iran), topped... More »

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Baghdad • art • Sotheby's • sculpture • Guennol Lioness

Cheez Whiz Redoes Rushmore

Jun 30, 07 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Troy Landwehr of Little Chute, Wisconsin has carved a block of cheese weighing over 600 pounds into a replica of Mt. Rushmore.  The project was commissioned by Cheez-It snack crackers, on whose products the mountain of cheese will eventually be served.  Troy hits the road shortly to promote... More »

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Wisconsin • cheese • sculpture • Troy Landwehr • Cheez Whiz • Cheez It • Mt. Rushmore • publicity

Obama as Jesus
Stirs Some Ire

Christ sculpture draws protest, but Barack turns the other cheek

Apr 3, 07 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another sculpture of Jesus is stirring protest this Holy Week—this time a work portraying Barack Obama as the savior. The Art Institute of Chicago has gotten a flood of angry calls over the piece in an exhibition of student work, close on the heels of the chocolate Christ brouhaha... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • presidential campaign • free speech • art • religion • sculpture • Christ • Art Institute • Election 2008 • presidential election

Chocolate Christ  Show Cancelled

New York gallery
pulls sculpture after
Catholic outcry

Mar 31, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A  nude chocolate Christ, sans loincloth, was pulled from a midtown Manhattan gallery yesterday after torrent of complaints from offended Catholics . Bill Donohue, head of the watchdog Catholic League, which orchestrated the protest, said the sculpture, intended for display during Holy Week,  was "one of the worst assaults... More »

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Catholic Church • Bill Donohue • protests • sculpture • Christ • Catholic League

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