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Belgian ex-king Albert concedes claimant is his daughter
BRUSSELS (AP) — After years of court battles, Belgium’s former King Albert II is no longer fighting a claim that he is the father of artist and sculptor Delphine Boel, bringing a major breakthrough in the decades-old royal paternity scandal. A statement delivered by his lawyers to Belgian media on...
Artists sought for Detroit convention center sculpture
DETROIT (AP) — A national competition is underway that seeks artists' proposals for a planned public sculpture outside the main entrance to downtown Detroit's TCF Center. The Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority and its Art Foundation say the proposals for the permanent sculpture cannot be...
Virginia sculptor creates huge mythical monster for exhibit
GRETNA, Va. (AP) — When Jennifer Buckingham was launched through the windshield and sustained 85% paralysis in her arms in a car crash in 2002, she thought she would never be able to sculpt again. “I couldn’t hold a coffee cup, let alone a delicate piece of pottery,” she said. After a...
North Alabama through the eyes of a photographer, sculptor
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Through photographs, soil, toy tractors, trash and found objects, two artists spotlight the nature and people of north Alabama in the Carnegie Visual Arts Center's "Artifact: Vision." Featuring works by mixed media artist Spencer Nolen Laws and photographer Crystal Vander Weit, the...
Iraqi artists pay tribute to dead protesters with sculptures
BAGHDAD (AP) — The sculptures carved by seven art trainees were lined up outside a makeshift workshop in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. With them were posters depicting protesters who have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in the past three months. One sculpture showed a protester with a tear...
From New York to Moscow, Holocaust survivors share memories
PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivors sang at Jerusalem's Western Wall, danced in Paris and lit candles in other cities to celebrate Hanukkah together, recalling Nazi horrors that Jewish community leaders fear are fading from the world's collective memory. An 86-year-old man in Moscow described being forced by...
Mississippi board sells porcelain princess to draw interest
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi board working to build an arts pavilion is hoping to raise awareness for the plan by selling a princess — or at least a replica of one. The board of directors of the proposed Mississippi International Arts Pavilion in Vicksburg is selling reproductions of the...
Richmond gets a new soaring statue, this one with dreadlocks
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A massive bronze sculpture of a young black man with dreadlocks astride a muscular horse was permanently installed Tuesday in Virginia’s capital city, not far from one of the country’s most prominent displays of Confederate monuments. Thousands of people crowded the lawn...
Banana, duct tape add up to $150,000 at Art Basel Miami
MIAMI (AP) — 3D-printed cocktails, a traffic jam sculpture made of hundreds of tons of sand and more celebrity sightings than a Kardashian Christmas party were all part of over-the-top festivities during the week of Art Basel Miami, but it was a banana that stole the show. The most talked-about artwork of...
Slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer honored with statue
Hattiesburg, Miss. (AP) — HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A statue of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer now sits outside the Forrest County Courthouse in Mississippi. The Hattiesburg American reports the bronze sculpture, created by artists Vixon Sullivan and Ben Watts, was commissioned in 2018 by...
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