Giacomo Manzù and His Portal for St. Peter’s

Giacorno Manzi, who in the 1960s produced the large, bas-relief bronze doors for St. Peter’s Basiiica in Rome, has just about vanished from critical attention, especially in the U.S. He was widely respected for his ability to bring the Italian Humanist tradition to Modernist concerns of sculptural form in space…see the full feature in December’s

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Outdoor Sculpture: The Stuart Collection

In 1981 an extraordinary partnership was formed between the University of California, San Diego, and the Stuart Foundation, an organization founded by James Stuart DeSilva and dedicated to funding experimental and challenging public sculpture projects.The result has been one of the nation’s most distinctive collections of outdoor sculpture.

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Building New Bridges in Pittsburgh: The 19th International Sculpture Conference

In and around the corporate cathedrals of downtown Pittsburgh, the International Sculpture Conference wove together the playful, the prophetic, the political, and the poetic sides of sculpture. Artists, art professionals, curators, collectors, and academics from over 20 countries assembled to explore the form and content of many types of sculpture in panel discussions ranging from

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