‘I’m working harder than ever’ … self-portrait of David Bailey with his sculpture Dead Andy. Photograph: David Bailey Quite recently, David Bailey decided to make a sculpture of his old friend Andy Warhol. In his studio on Dartmoor, he took a tin can, filled it with beans and then took some more beans to sculpt [...]

Henry Moore’s Large Divided Oval: Butterfly in Berlin Henry Moore’s heaviest bronze sculpture, Large Divided Oval: Butterfly, has been restored in Berlin. Weighing nearly nine tons, it was his final major work, completed just before he died in 1986. Butterfly stands in the middle of a circular basin, outside the entrance to Berlin’s House of [...]

Fragile Goddess on display at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore in 2006 Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women’s deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio’s managing director said. She was 98. Bourgeois had continued creating artwork — her latest pieces were finished just last [...]

U.S. sculptor Richard Serra, renowned for his large-scale metal structures, has been named the winner of Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias award in the arts for his innovative ability to integrate urban spaces in his work, organizers said. The Prince of Asturias Foundation described Serra Wednesday as one of the “most relevant sculptors of the [...]

At times using over 50,000 nails, this highly skilled and multifaceted artist has been banging his ideas onto large white wooden panels. LONDON.- Having turned his hand to craftsmanship, these days you’re more likely to find ex-businessman Marcus Levine ‘nailing it’ in the art world rather than the boardroom. This Yorkshire-born sculptor, and unwitting specialist [...]

The Ego and the Id by Franz West. Outdoor art isn’t what it used to be. Once it honored heroic individuals and upheld values that whole populations could embrace. Today, excepting memorials like the Vietnam veterans wall, outdoor art serves rather to divert, amuse and comfort. A striking illustration of that old-new dichotomy straddles East [...]

Cutting-edge laser technology was used to clean more than a century of grime from the statue of the boy who killed Goliath, created by the artist Donatello in the 15th century. “The David is incomparably more beautiful now than ever before, even though it would seem impossible,” said Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, director of the Bargello [...]