A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for New Zealand dollars 3,080 ($2,220) on an auction Web site. The bust of New Zealand Environment Minister Nick Smith, sculpted as a protest by artist Sam Mahon, attracted 112 bids before being picked up by an anonymous buyer on Friday.
A bronze Egyptian sculpture from a Cleveland man's garden that he almost let an antique dealer take for $3,000 a few years ago has sold at auction for $118,000.
Officials at Northern Illinois University have unveiled a sculpture at the site of a campus shooting that left five students dead in 2008.
A valuable bronze sculpture that was donated to charity without the donor or recipient realizing its worth is going back to its owner.
Abraham Lincoln's hometown looked back Thursday at a long-ignored horror story, as officials dedicated a sculpture commemorating the 1908 riot in which white mobs lynched and terrorized black residents.
French artist Jean-Baptiste Seckler is sculpting a public tribute to the late Michael Jackson in front of Paris' Pompidou Center.
Parents in Florida are complaining about a sculpture of a nude family outside a shopping center west of Delray Beach.
Each year on the boardwalk, thousands of french fries are consumed by beachgoers, snatched by seagulls or tossed in the trash at the end of the day.
A towering sculpture in the Maryland mountains depicting three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero was financed by investor fraud, federal regulators say.
It's like entering a wondrous dream: gauzy pastel- tinted fabrics forming tentlike structures and tunnels with aroma-filled hanging pods within arm's reach. A pool filled with plastic balls and a multicolored carpet invite playful activity.
A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave was unveiled Wednesday by archaeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form. The carving found in six fragments in Germany's Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs and large, protruding breasts.
A university official removed a sculpture that depicts a girl and a teacher in a sex act from a campus gallery, prompting complaints from an anti-censorship group.
A sculpture by French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold for 13.3 million pounds ($19 million) Tuesday at Sotheby's auction house in London.
Jeremy Strick, former director of the financially troubled Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has been named the new director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, the museum's board of directors announced Friday.
The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed.
A critic of global warming is responsible for the icy glare Al Gore is giving this Alaskan community.
The pop artist best known for his LOVE word sculpture has created a similar public art installation that spells HOPE — in celebration of Barack Obama's message of hope.
The economy is melting — literally. Two artists on Wednesday installed a 1,500-pound ice sculpture that spelled the word "Economy" in Manhattan's financial district.
The sculpture shows a man about to fall under a subway car driven by a Grim Reaper figure.
A 15th-century sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was damaged after it came loose from its moorings and fell to the floor.
A newly discovered wood sculpture of a Buddha has sold for $14.3 million, a price the auctioneer calls a world record for any Japanese work of art.
A bronze-and-steel sculpture of three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag amid the ruins of the World Trade Center is a reminder to "never give up," the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday at a dedication ceremony.
A German university has returned a small sculpture taken from the Parthenon — a gesture the Greek government said would bolster efforts to bring back the Elgin Marbles from Britain.
Artists and city planners are reshaping the city's largest undeveloped downtown water front — a toxic vacant lot — into a sculpture park, museum and environmental restoration project that officials hope will become a new landmark alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market.
Ricky Swallow miraculously makes wood look like crumpled paper or scales on a fish, just as he makes plaster look like a backpack.
Lui Bolin, a Chinese artist, has recently gained international notoriety for his sculpture "Burning Man Obama." He is also famous for his "invisible" photographs.
Oddball artist Jessica Marie has become a cult hit - selling women sculptures of their own vaginas. Jessica, who was inspired by the Vagina Monologues stage show, creates miniature replicas on necklaces from photographs supplied by her clients.
Parents and teachers in China are protesting after a sculpture of a tiny girl with giant breasts was installed in a city park. The sculpture depicts a 20cm tall girl with breasts that are five metres high and wide.
With their alien-like appearance and giant size these balloon sculptures might be a bit scary for a children's party. But after painstakingly constructing each one over three days artist Jason Hackenwerth probably doesn't want kids playing with them anyway.
If you live in the Southeast and love visual art, a trip to Atlanta may be well worthwhile. The High Museum of Art has had some excellent programming in the past several years. It is also a wonderful facility.
A lone figure stands in an eerie green landscape with long beams of shimmering light seemingly emanating from his body. In another image, a neon-colored UFO spins above a muted creek at twilight.
Artist Kenny Scharf's hilltop garden in Culver City is no Monet masterpiece. It is more like a Georgia O'Keeffe -- rocks and concrete pavers set among colorful succulents and exotic cactuses that look like stones and desiccated brains.
Sculptures decorate landscapes, museums, and buildings, but water covers the majority of the Earth's surface thus making it the world's largest art gallery.
""I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. " This quote by Michelangelo describes his attitude toward art extremely well. Unlike one of his contemporaries, Leonardo Da Vinci, he did not draw on nature, but did his best to do away with it.
New international website art gallery openning and looking for emerging fine art artists - painters, scluptors, photographers (nudes excepted) -seems like a great way for new artists to get their work seen and perhaps make some bucks doing so too. St.
Rock-hard buttocks are easy to find in the town of Silt, Colorado. But it has nothing to do with fitness.
Another way to beat the recession!
Peter Jansen must have watched the slow motion parts in The Matrix thousands of times. A student of physics and philosophy, the Dutch artist captures sequences of human movements within a single frame of space and time. The result is quite stunning.
Welcome to the "ownership" and "entitlement" society, where people feel that you can't do anything without paying everyone. The latest such example is a lawsuit against the US Postal Service over a recent stamp that is a photo of part of the Korean War Memorial in Washington DC.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have an idea for sculptor Sarah Pratt and the Iowa State Fair - instead of using butter for a Michael Jackson sculpture, how about a nondairy spread?
Plans for a Michael Jackson statue made of butter are churning up so many comments that Iowa State Fair organizers are putting the proposal to a vote.
The Turin Shroud was faked by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci using pioneering photographic techniques and a sculpture of his own head, a television documentary claims.
by "Bud" E. Lewis Evans M.A. (Studio Art)
"The schoolchildren painted reproductions by famous Israeli artists - Jews and Arabs - on both sides of the sculptures, creating a collaborative public art installation that reflects Arab-Jewish dialogue through cultural cooperation.
I would have to be the Mona Lisa, without doubt.
I have been invited to create a public art piece at Allegheny College in Meadville Pennsylvania in September. It will be created on a 12' x 12' space on campus and people can come and watch or help create the piece for 8 hours.
This is officially the Best Bike Rack of all time. (see picture after the jump)
www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/FineArts/IFTA 703-208-7719 IFTA provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills within one discipline or experiene a variety of fine arts offerings. Disciplines
One of the most audacious British art thefts, the disappearance of a two-tonne Henry Moore sculpture worth £3m, has been solved by police, who believe that the internationally revered Reclining Figure sculpture was melted down and sold for no more than £1,500.