Anita Denholm is carving a 2-metre-tall statue from grey granite that she says will be "fairly permanent". "This piece will outlast all of us, being the granite that it is — it's one of the hardest ...

Museum leaders and others are asking the National Geographic Society to find a way to expand its Washington headquarters without dismantling the art work. By Rebecca J. Ritzel Explorers affiliated ...

The craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of ...

QUINCY – After the new Quincy High School opened in 2010, English Department Chair Michael Ellis said he would find groups of former students wandering the halls after hours to check out the new digs.

This year’s round of the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium, which hosts 15 artists by the banks of the Nile for seven weeks, will conclude on 9 March. This round featured three Egyptian artists, ...

Few art forms capture eternity like stone carving, where unyielding granite is shaped into something almost alive. Mayan—In ...

To take an obdurate material and transform it into a work of art is a daunting concept. Perhaps our Stone Age ancestors intuitively understood longevity, as evidenced by the paintings and carvings ...

Work is underway on the Halifax waterfront to create a permanent collection of outdoor granite sculptures. Under a partnership with the Waterfront Development corporation, the sculpturing is taking ...

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A District of Columbia preservation panel told the National Geographic Society on Thursday to suspend its current campus redesign plan pending further review of the proposed removal of an acclaimed ...