Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part One)
(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?
The Inevitably Acquiescent Volcano – Tiepolo’s Venus and Vulcan
Vulcan thought his ex-wife was out of the picture. Then one day while he was at work, she suddenly appeared
A Perfect Indian is He – Sculptures of The Buddha
In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
Send lawyers, guns and money – Houdon’s Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of metal tools during the Bronze Age, marble has been carved by
Of and Off the Grid – Artist Agnes Martin
In 1957, forty-five-year-old artist Agnes Martin rented a studio in Coenties Slip among the abandoned buildings along the dilapidated waterfront
The sculpture has been drinking – Picasso’s Sculpture, A Glass of Absinthe
Once it became widely available in the mid-1800s, a drink fondly nicknamed “the green fairy” became the liquid muse of choice
For All the Single Ladies – Durga, the Invincible Goddess
Hinduism, the world’s oldest living religion, originated in India about 4000 years ago and encompasses a vast array of practices
