sculpture

Docents on the America InSight tours guide visitors through the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Blind Art Lovers Make The Most Of Museum Visits With 'InSight' Tours

1:07pm January 05, 2017

by Susan Stamberg

"Sight isn't the only pathway to understand art," says Carol Wilson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There, specially trained docents lead tours using sound, description — and even touch.

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Opera binocs. Food by Chef John N. Novi.

At This Experimental Culinary Event, The Cutlery Is High Art

1:21pm August 16, 2016

by Natalie Jacewicz

Three Michelin-star chefs will cook for 60 guests in a one-night voyage of victuals in California. We talked to an artist creating the virtuoso flatware for the event.

One of the main attractions in "The Edible Monument" exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles is a nine-foot long sugar palace showing the Greek sorceress Circe meeting Odysseus' men.

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Let them Eat Sugar Sculpture! The Getty Celebrates Edible Table Art

1:58pm November 20, 2015

by Abbie Fentress Swanson

The party animals of Europe made festive, elaborate centerpieces from food from medieval times through the 18th century. Among the most notable of their table art traditions is the sugar monument.

Of the four sculptures that comprise The Rising Tide, two are businessmen or politicians — including this one with arms folded and eyes shut tight.

Set In Stone But Ever-Changing: Sculptures Reshaped By The Tides

2:25pm September 23, 2015

by NPR Staff

It's tough to see Jason deCaires Taylor's sculptures firsthand — unless you have scuba gear. Most of them rest under the sea. His latest work is fully visible only when the tide of the Thames recedes.

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Plaster casts taken from soldiers' mutilated faces (top row), new sculpted faces (bottom row), and final masks (on the table) sit in the studio of Anna Coleman Ladd in 1918.

One Sculptor's Answer To WWI Wounds: Plaster, Copper And Paint

2:02pm October 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

World War I left many soldiers with disfiguring scars. For those whose faces were no longer recognizable, an American artist, Anna Coleman Ladd, sculpted masks to cover their injuries.

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Cosmo Wenman generated this 3-D model of the Ares Borghese, based on hundreds of photos, from the Basel Sculpture Hall. Wenman publishes the scans online, so that anyone can use them to 3-D print a replica of the masterpiece.

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3-D Printing A Masterwork For Your Living Room

12:22pm October 11, 2013

by Laura Sydell

It's now possible to create an impressive copy of Michelangelo's David or Rodin's The Thinker with a 3-D printer. Rather than object, some museum curators see this high-tech replication as a way to bring near-real versions of classic works to the masses.

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