Sculpture

Back to the future: ‘The Asset Strippers’, by Mike Nelson

Powerful elegy for a world that is slipping away: Tate Britain’s The Asset Strippers reviewed

30 March 2019 9:00 am

There was a moment more than 20 years ago when Bankside Power Station was derelict but its transformation into Tate…

What a relief: ‘Descent of the Ganges’ or ‘Arjuna’s Penance’, 7th century

India’s Sistine ceiling

19 May 2018 9:00 am

In Tamil Nadu we found that we were exotic. Although there were some other western tourists around, in most of…

Up, up and away: ‘Endless Column’, 1937, by Constantin Brancusi

Tall story

24 June 2017 9:00 am

‘Everything is slow in Romania,’ said our driver Pavel resignedly, and, as it turned out, he was not exaggerating. He…

‘Children Playing’, 1953, by Kenneth Armitage

An artist of the quickening world

20 May 2017 9:00 am

What is it about Yorkshire, particularly Leeds, that it has bred or trained such a succession of famous modern sculptors?…

March of the makers

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Until earlier this year, a squat sculpture nestled rather unobtrusively outside 20 Manchester Square in Marylebone, an address once made…

Detail from ‘Spring’, 2015, by Tony Cragg

March of the makers

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

Until earlier this year, a squat sculpture nestled rather unobtrusively outside 20 Manchester Square in Marylebone, an address once made…

Detail from ‘Spring’, 2015, by Tony Cragg

March of the makers

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

Until earlier this year, a squat sculpture nestled rather unobtrusively outside 20 Manchester Square in Marylebone, an address once made…

Heavenly bodies

30 July 2016 9:00 am

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

One of the two bronze statues of Greek warriors found in the sea off Riace, on display for the first time at the presidential palace in Rome, 1981

Heavenly bodies

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

One of the two bronze statues of Greek warriors found in the sea off Riace, on display for the first time at the presidential palace in Rome, 1981

Heavenly bodies

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was…

Marisol with some of her sculptures, New York, 1958

What happened to the First Lady of Pop Art?

21 May 2016 9:00 am

In 1961 the Venezuelan-American sculptor Marisol Escobar made a startling appearance at the New York artists’ group known as the…

Marisol with some of her sculptures, New York, 1958

First Lady of Pop Art

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

In 1961 the Venezuelan-American sculptor Marisol Escobar made a startling appearance at the New York artists’ group known as the…

Marisol with some of her sculptures, New York, 1958

First Lady of Pop Art

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

In 1961 the Venezuelan-American sculptor Marisol Escobar made a startling appearance at the New York artists’ group known as the…

Power tool: Elisabeth Frink carving ‘Dorset Martyrs’, c.1985

The work of Elisabeth Frink is ripe for a renaissance

21 November 2015 9:00 am

In a converted barn in Dorset, not far from the rural studio where she made many of her greatest sculptures,…

Power tool: Elisabeth Frink carving ‘Dorset Martyrs’, c.1985

Lost in space

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

In a converted barn in Dorset, not far from the rural studio where she made many of her greatest sculptures,…

Power tool: Elisabeth Frink carving ‘Dorset Martyrs’, c.1985

Lost in space

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

In a converted barn in Dorset, not far from the rural studio where she made many of her greatest sculptures,…

Detail from the great and strange Altar of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider at the Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Is this the greatest sculpted version of the Easter story? It's certainly the strangest

4 April 2015 9:00 am

In April 1501, about the time Michelangelo was returning from Rome to Florence to compete for the commission to carve…

Detail from the great and strange Altar of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider at the Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Lime light

2 April 2015 2:00 pm

In April 1501, about the time Michelangelo was returning from Rome to Florence to compete for the commission to carve…

Detail from the great and strange Altar of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider at the Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Lime light

2 April 2015 2:00 pm

In April 1501, about the time Michelangelo was returning from Rome to Florence to compete for the commission to carve…