NASHUA – Artist John Weidman is perplexed about the criticism a colleague’s sculpture received because some viewers thought it resembled a butt. “I’ve gotten a lot of positive comments” on the piece, ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Slowly but surely, 3D printing is becoming a part of how computer-generated-art intersects with reality (in the same way it will cause a collision for copyright vs. reality and gun control with ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

The objects — one a hydrocal plaster pile of the small, pockmarked, and scaly balls (“Untitled 5,” 2015, at top), the other a leaning plinth of sleek black marble whose underside is filled with ...

If you take a look at Wilfrid Wood’s website, it’s clear that the sculptor has the chops for realism, or at least something approaching it. Wood’s clay likenesses of Sir Paul McCartney and footballer ...

For a broad swath of people, an art fair is not a place of wheeling and dealing but a place to look at art. It’s always an experience to wander the aisles and feel the jadedness subside, the LED glare ...

The influential sculptor Mona Saudi, who made mainly abstract works from stone, has died, aged 76; her death was confirmed by her gallery, Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai. Saudi was born in Amman, Jordan in ...