Articles
The Man Who Made the Giant Obama Head Out of Sand at the DNC
It’s no gilded statue or carved monument, but President Barack Obama has been immortalized in sculpture at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this...
WATCH: Make a 3-D Sculpture of Your Unborn Fetus
If you didn’t think that landing a rover on Mars was enough to prove that science is capable of amazing things, ponder this: A Japanese company now offering...
Giant Woman Sculpture Makes Waves in German Lake
Hamburg's Inner Alster Lake has a new inhabitant – and this is not your standard duck or fish. For ten days, a giant woman sculpture called “Die Badende” (“The...
Sculpture Parks: Out in the Open
At their worst, museums are stuffy and swarming with tourists — and what's with the glowering security guards? At sculpture parks, on the other hand, you get...
Divine Revelation: Buddhist Sculpture at the V&A
Likenesses of Buddha are these days so commonplace — the casual adornment of fashionable spas, fusion restaurants and Parisian nightclubs — that it is strange to...
Photo Essays
JFK and Jackie: When They Were Dummies
The notion that Jackie Kennedy was, and remains, a fashion icon is today such a commonplace that it’s difficult to fathom, five decades later, just how enormous...
Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Beloved Butterflies
On anyone’s list of the 20th century’s greatest writers never to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov will likely appear at, or very...
