Tag: Sculpture
What is vernacular art? A visual artist explains
Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee
Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by artists who are usually...
My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to...
Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University
I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the...
When men started to obsess over six-packs
Conor Heffernan, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows...
America’s hidden world of handmade pornography
Lisa Z. Sigel, DePaul University
“To live among the handmade,” philosopher and antiques dealer Leon Rosenstein once said, “is to live among the human.”
Well, there’s...
What to do with Confederate statues?
James Glaser, Tufts University
Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history?
Many places in the South –...