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For the last year or two, Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum has been in a stock-taking mood about U.S. art. A year ago, with the help of an elaborate system of regional juries, the museum sorted through ...

One segment of the art market is growing faster than all the rest: ultra-contemporary art. Auction sales in the category—which refers to work made by artists born after 1974—did not merely continue ...

If they could time travel to the current century, Renaissance sculptors would probably wonder if marble and iron were scarce resources. Contemporary sculptors have come a long way since their ...

A major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if ...

When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it was only the beginning for the cause of liberation. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, an exhibition ...

During his 84-year life, Liu Shiming helped shape a new Chinese cultural image rooted in the contributions and sacrifices of everyday people. Artist Liu Shiming (right) with clay maquette for his ...