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Venice removes controversial Boy with Frog statue

Agence France-PresseMay 9, 2013 08:15
Venice removed a controversial white statue of a naked boy holding a frog by US sculptor Charles Ray from the entrance of the Grand Canal on Wednesday, sparking criticism from art lovers. The 2.4-metre (7.8-foot) high statue, commissioned by French billionaire collector Francois Pinault, will be replaced with a copy of a 19th-century lamp-post which used to stand on the spot and was much loved by residents of the floating city. The sculpture was outside Punta della Dogana, a former customs house that is now a contemporary art museum housing Pinault's rich collection.

Venice removes controversial Boy with Frog statue

Agence France-PresseMay 9, 2013 07:45
Venice removed a controversial white statue of a naked boy holding a frog by US sculptor Charles Ray from the entrance of the Grand Canal on Wednesday, sparking criticism from art lovers. The 2.4-metre (7.8-foot) high statue, commissioned by French billionaire collector Francois Pinault, will be replaced with a copy of a 19th-century lamp-post which used to stand on the spot and was much loved by residents of the floating city. The sculpture was outside Punta della Dogana, a former customs house that is now a contemporary art museum housing Pinault's rich collection.

Florence exhibition evokes dawn of the Renaissance

April 11, 2013 22:16
The Renaissance really began in a few decades at the beginning of the 15th century in Florence -- an artistic revolution mapped out in a remarkable exhibition that brings together 140 sculptures and paintings from collections around the world. Works by masters including Donatello and Masaccio, Brunelleschi and Paolo Uccello have been loaned for the unprecedented show thanks to a partnership between the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, itself a Renaissance jewel.

Sculptors Moore, Rodin meet in English country garden

March 21, 2013 08:30
By Li-mei Hoang MUCH HADHAM, England (Reuters) - Nestled in the idyllic English countryside just north of London, the home of British sculptor Henry Moore is playing host to one of France's most revered artists, Auguste Rodin, for the first time. Rodin, renowned the world over for works like his bronze "The Thinker" and "The Kiss" made from marble, will be displayed alongside Moore in a new exhibition that explores the parallels and differences between the two sculptors.

Japan town demands pants for Michelangelo's David

February 6, 2013 01:31
A replica of Michelangelo's Renaissance sculpture David that was erected suddenly last summer is unnerving residents of a Japanese town, with some calling for the naked masterpiece to be given underpants. Okuizumo town in western Shimane prefecture received five-metre (16-foot) replicas of David and of Greek treasure the Venus de Milo, as donations from a businessman who hails from the area.

Mammoth tusk art mirrors Matisse in new London show

February 5, 2013 15:00
By Alice Baghdjian LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Voluptuous female forms crafted from mammoth ivory tens of thousands of years ago sit alongside curvaceous nudes by Henri Matisse at the British Museum in a new exhibition that aims to show how the modern artistic mind was carved. "Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind" includes some of humanity's earliest known sculptures, such as a lion-headed man, and beads crafted from antler and bone at a time when giant woolly elephant-like beasts still roamed the Earth.
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