Word: sculptors
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Artists come to a career in art with all kinds of life experience on their résumés. Sometimes it's even pertinent. It makes perfect sense that Andy Warhol started out as an advertising illustrator. Or that the welded-steel sculptor David Smith spent time on an auto assembly line. With the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, it's not so easy at first to connect what he does now-create works that invite you to play with fields of colored light or with lenses and mirrors or with your own understandings of how you see-with what...
Designed by Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and Arup engineers, the Millennium Bridge (5), which links pedestrians at the Tate Modern on the south side of the river to St. Paul's Cathedral on the north, is still known affectionately by Londoners as the "wobbly bridge," although its seasickness-inducing swing has been corrected...
...about an animal that isn't supposed to have any legs at all and yet still needs to get around? Fuji, the dolphin that lost 75% of her tail, had just enough left that researchers at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan could affix a rubber tail, designed by sculptor Kazuhiko Yakushiji, onto her mangled tailfin with reinforced plastic and metal screws. Winter, a dolphin that lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is completely tailless as a result of an injury from a crab trap, presents a much bigger challenge. Hanger Orthopedic Group in Bethesda, Md., thinks...
...painted itself into a dead end. It was just around then that Murray, who was born in Chicago in 1940, got seriously to work. Murray had graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962 and arrived in New York City five years later with her first husband, a sculptor. She would be one of a growing number of artists - Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston, Jennifer Bartlett were some others - who were looking for new ways to make painting a dynamic form again. In that search, Murray would turn out to be a brilliant synthesizer, blending influences from Stuart Davis, from...
...seen sculptures of Martin Luther King [Jr.] in America, and none of them was perfect. I think I can do better.' LEI YIXIN, Chinese sculptor, whose commission to create a King statue for a Washington, D.C., memorial angered African-American groups, who complained that the job had been outsourced to China...