Greek Sculpture at The Met
“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.” —Alexander the Great (356 B.C.–323 B.C.) he and his […]
Tag Archives: Sculpture
Central Park’s Seventh Regiment Memorial
The Veteran Corps “commemorated the memory of their comrades who fell in the Civil War with appropriate exercises… The monument was almost hidden from sight by wreaths and flowers, as […]
A Free Press and Horace Greeley
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” —Horace Greeley (1811–1872) Today is World Press Freedom Day. To highlight […]
George Washington as Roman Emperor
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” —George Washington (1732–1799) By his peers and the public, George Washington was considered such a man, virtuous to a very high […]
‘Love’: Colorful, Steely, and Stacked
“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.” —Robert Indiana (1928– ) On Valentine’s Day, we are celebrating love […]
A ‘Walk’ in The Whitney
“People seem to be in some kind of hypnotic dream state. They seem to be programmed.” —George Segal (1924–2000), his observations while he was researching Walk, Don’t Walk This is […]
The Vanishing Vanderbilts
“The bits and pieces of history that chronicle the four-generation saga of the Vanderbilt Family are scattered everywhere like a broken string of pearls …” —from 1989’s Fortune’s Children by […]
Masking New York
“In this piece I wanted to bring the activity and the feel of the studio into public space as an experience. The public gets to ‘see’ the work both from […]
Serious Man, Playful Art
“… with your support and that of our millions of non-Jewish friends, we will drive the last nail in the coffin of bigotry and fanaticism that has dared raise its […]
Sculpted from Light
“You can see the light from down the street. It draws people inside and up the stairs, since the only way to understand it is through exploration.” — Chris Cooper, […]
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