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5 days ago · The photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, became the inspiration for a bronze, life-size statue of the flag raising that in 1954 became the centerpiece of the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington, D.C. The sculptor was Felix W. de Weldon with the U.S. Navy.
5 days ago · The published photograph soon became the defining image of the war. It immediately inspired Felix de Weldon, an Austrian who had moved to the United States and enlisted in the Navy during the war. He immediately sculpted a maquette, or a sort of first draft of a sculpture, during a single weekend.
4 days ago · Benjamin Waldman. Located in Hamilton Township, New Jersey (just outside of Trenton), Grounds for Sculpture is one of the world’s most impressive sculpture gardens. While Grounds for...
3 days ago · This presentation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Loverboy) (1989) at Dia Beacon marks the artist’s first acquisition and exhibition at Dia. Consisting of sheer light-blue curtains installed in the linear expanse of the east gallery, which is lined by Robert Irwin–designed windows featuring shifting glazes, “Untitled” (Loverboy) emphasizes the existing architectural ...
1 day ago · James Weldon Johnson saw a still different Harlem. In his 1930 book, Black Manhattan , he described the black metropolis in near utopian terms as the race's great hope and its grand social experiment: "So here we have Harlem—not merely a colony or a community or a settlement . . . but a black city, located in the heart of white Manhattan, and ...
2 days ago · A tranquil oasis of art and nature, the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden showcases masterworks of 20th- and 21st-century sculpture by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Pietro Consagra, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith.
2 days ago · April 30 — May 26, 2024. 2024 marks the 90th birthday of celebrated artist and beloved retired NMC faculty member Paul Welch. This retrospective of his work will be on view in the museum’s sculpture court.
