Featured as part of the Renwick Gallery’s Wonder exhibit, Middle Fork was modeled on an 85-foot-tall, approximately 150-year-old hemlock growing in the Cascade Mountains—Grade specifically sought a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A wooden Buddha sculpture set a new world auction record for Japanese art when it was sold for $14,377,000 at Christie's on Tuesday to Mitsukoshi Co. Ltd. The newly ...

Hunter-gatherers in what is now Russia likely viewed the wooden sculpture as an artwork imbued with ritual significance. Sverdlovsk Regional Museum Gold prospectors first discovered the so-called ...

Sara Drew: This is a very clear case of, if this object didn't get help, it would deteriorate even more over time. I'm Sara, director of conservation at Center Art Studio, and today I'm going to walk ...

New York sculptor Joel Shapiro brought attention to himself early in his career with a brazenly effective gesture. In a 1974 group show in lower Manhattan, he placed on the floor a lay figure -- the ...