Word: sculptor
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...beside the point. Character, not circumstance, is Wagner's dilemma, and a very funny and touching one it is. As might be expected from the author of such novels as Sneaky People and Neighbors, Berger surrounds Wagner with a gallery of vividly tacky secondary figures, notably a crude, egomaniacal sculptor named Siv Zirko, who is putting the make on Wagner's estranged wife. Significantly, the artist's smash-hit exhibition is just what the term implies; its centerpiece is a daunting replica of his erect phallus...
...time it was taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois of Reims, France, the 15-ft. flame is gilded with 24-karat gold leaf. During the ceremony, Regional...
...Ignored by all but a few loyalists, American Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens receives his due in a retrospective...
...Saint-Gaudens. Even today his rehabilitation is incomplete. Sculpture provokes fewer fantasies than painting; not everyone is willing to give Saint-Gaudens the place accorded, as a matter of course, to Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins or Winslow Homer. Hence the interest of the current exhibition "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor," organized by Art Historian Kathryn Greenthal for New York's Metropolitan Museum...
...Johnson made 22 wills or major modifications that gave his wife ever greater shares of his estate. His final will was the fourth drafted in eight weeks. By then, say the children, their father was weakened, senile and fully in his wife's clutches. J. Seward Jr., 55, a sculptor of lifelike bronzes, told the New York Times: "We could not allow words to be put in his mouth that...