Sculpture

July 25, 2025

Carved Pillars of Light Radiate Intricate Luminescent Patterns

Nestled in northern Iowa, Mason City is, perhaps unexpectedly, a beacon of cultural heritage. It’s home to the Historic Park Inn, the world’s last remaining hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It boasts an indelible collection of Prairie School architecture, and it was the inspiration behind Meredith Willson’s iconic stage musical The Music Man, whose characters were based on people he grew up with in the city.

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July 16, 2025

Surreal Sculptures of Fragmented People Inspiring Self-Reflection [Interview]

South African artist James Cook’s sculptures weren’t always grounded in abstraction. Before he began creating the fragmented, dreamy sculptures for which he’s become known, he mostly stayed within the lines. At first, this was an attractive option for him: there was a “technical challenge” implicit in “capturing the human form with precision,” the artist tells My Modern Met, yet he often felt that the final results remained “static.

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July 8, 2025

Artist Creates Dazzling Portrait by Layering Shattered Glass

Nestled in Basel’s De-Wette Park is something unexpected: several panes of glass, each shattered and irregularly stacked against a transport rack. Titled Morphogenesis, the installation is the latest from Swiss artist Simon Berger, who, for years, has manipulated glass through breaking, cracking, and hammering to produce dazzling and ephemeral portraits. Morphogenesis is no exception, and, as the artist himself says, marks a “new chapter in my exploration of glass as a medium.

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June 21, 2025

Artist Reimagines Korean Folktale As Elegant Acoustic Sculpture Covered in Bells

Around the world, countless folkloric stories concern the origins of the sun and the moon. In Korea, that folktale involves a brother and a sister who, as they scramble to escape a wild tiger, discover an iron ladder sent down to them by the Sky God. As they ascend toward the sky, the pair transform into the sun and the moon, and, soon after, the tiger is punished, his blood spilled over a sorghum stalk.

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