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How Raven Halfmoon Channels Indigenous History and Identity Into Her Monumental Sculptures

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In this edition of "Source Material," Raven Halfmoon takes us to Indigenous earthworks in Ohio, to visit her horses, and more. The post How Raven Halfmoon Channels Indigenous History and Identity Into Her Monumental Sculptures appeared first on Artnet News.

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Suchitra Mattai Creates ‘New Mythologies’ While Retracing the Footsteps of Her Ancestors

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In this 'Source Material' Suchitra Mattai shares how Indian sculpture and vintage finds all shapes her work rooted in diaspora. The post Suchitra Mattai Creates ‘New Mythologies’ While Retracing the Footsteps of Her Ancestors appeared first on Artnet News.

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Sculpting the Divine: Exploring Religious Statues and Sculptures 

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Throughout history humanity has been fascinated with manifesting the divine in sculptural form to both pay homage to godly figures and to pass down the traditions, rituals, and narratives across different religious faiths. If this interpretation is correct, humans have been venerating religious sculpture for more than 20,000 years.

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The Art of Henri Matisse’s Paper Cut-Out Sculptures

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How The Sculptures are Made It took Matisse two years to complete twenty different paper cut out collages. To develop the paper sculptures, Matisse would cut shapes out freehand using paper that was pre-painted with gouache by his assistants. We buy antique bronzes of all variety and we buy antique sculptures.

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Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman, three artists who ‘redefined sculpture’, to be shown together for first time in London

The Art Newspaper

Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the “correspondence or unity of material among the three of them,” says its curator

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Revamped Wiener Holocaust Library to reopen with exhibition on celebrated Jewish sculptor

The Art Newspaper

The library, which houses the world’s oldest collection of archival material on the Nazi era, will present works by Fred Kormis in a newly renovated exhibition space

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Types of Chinese Art: A Guide to Valuing & Collecting Chinese Art

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The destruction of many historic artifacts in the 1960s and 1970s paired with the overall delicacy of the materials means that well-preserved, authentic Chinese antiques are increasingly difficult to find. The rarity of the material, as well as the beauty and intricacy of the decoration, represented status and wealth during the Qing dynasty.