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One of my favorite things to do is muck around with the art historical canon. Now I intend to bring that spiteful energy to the world of planking, a leisure activity in which you turn your body into a plank in a public space and then document it for the internet so it can be […]

Wearable Structures by Tracy Featherstone is a series of artistic wooden sculptures that interact and stifle movement of the body like geometric fungi.

Armelle Blary: I'll wait, Night Dress, 2009 http://armelleblary.com/

56. Often, in antique and second hand stores you will find old pieces of sculpture in either plaster or bronze. These things are usually about a foot or so high and often are of sentimental subject matter. 57. I imagine these things are about fifty years old and probably graced some little table of some poor interior as an imagined touch of class. As a matter of fact, there were two objects of this sort that my mother kept on the ledge of a window near the front door, at the foot of the stairs. 58. There were two figures cast in plaster, one was a shepherd and the other was a shepherdess. The shepherd was on the left of the window-sill, and from that position he gazed longingly at the shepherdess who was two feet away, who looked at him coyly over her shoulder. 59. They were poly-chrome sculpture, glazed in multiple colors, but mostly pastel tints. These two figures were the only sculpture I ever came across in my childhood excepting some full sized figures of Civil War heroes, and a life-sized bronze of General Lafayette, down on Lafayette Street.

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Tomohiro Inaba is a young artist who finished his graduate studies in 2010. He is attracted to iron as a material among other reasons because it begins to rust and decay upon contact with air, practically the moment it is created. For some his two-dimensional work he has used heat-sensitive paper, a likewise ephemeral material. Inaba often incorporates everyday objects into his work. His Straight Grass series consisted of household refuse exhibited in bespoke frames. Though made from solid iron wire, many of his sculptures appear freely woven. Their foundation is an anatomically correct solid form but it shoots off in incredibly complex tangles of steel wire that manifest themselves like violent pencil scribbles. His work has been exhibited in Japan.

Detail of marble composition by Aimé Millet, 1877. Jardin des Tuileries, Paris

Vodun:African Voodoo is an exhibition of the amazing private collection of Voodoo art collated by African and tribal art expert Jacques Kerchache.

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Michael Murphy challenges the boundaries between the second and third dimensions in his art. What appears to be a painting is, in fact, a series of

Nathalie Miebach focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Some of his recent work: Hat tip Simple Complexity

Based in Richmond, Virginia artist Morgan Herrin transforms the most humble material—laminated construction grade 2x4s—into spectacularly detailed figurative sculptures. His choice of imagery is surreal: a noble 15th century knight melts into a network of dripping stalagmites or a classical marble bust that is overgrown with parasitic sea creatures. The resulting works are a fascinating juxtaposition of material and subject matter that require up to a year of labor to produce. Of the untitled knight piece Herrin says: Untitled (Knight) is the product of the combination of two subjects: 15th century plate armor, and geological cave structure. More

One of my newest obsessions in art is perhaps one of the oldest forms. Sometimes known as Hyper-Realism or Photo-Realism; this art strives to be as aesthetically accurate as possible. It's a fine line between realistic and interesting, and these two artists have perfected that line. Realist sculptor Jamie Salmon is a god in my eyes. In his own words he wants to, "make something that tells a story or moves people in some sort of way, not something that just looks very real...I need my works to have a certain degree of reality about them, but it`s more of a heigtened reality. This is also why I like to play with scale in a lot of my works as well. I think it is something that catches people off guard and forces them to confront their ideas about reality, and to also think about the idea behind the work more deeply." Check out this genius! If you wanna see more of his work check out his online gallery at http://www.avatarsculptureworks.com/index.html The second Hyper-Realist artist is the amazing young artist Roberto Bernardi, who devoted his life to photo-realist still-lifes. His work is breathtaking, and YES THESE REALLY ARE PAINTINGS! If you like what you see make sure to check out his website http://www.robertobernardi.com/

This is hands down the best sculpture Ive ever seen. It was done by Bernini sometime around 1622. Apollo, son of Zeus, and god of sun and light (among about a dozen other things) was messing with Cupid one day. Cupid shoots him with one of his famed loved arrows in retribution. Apollo falls immediately in love with Daphne, the nymph daughter of a river god. Despite being a nymph (from which the word nymphomania is derived), Daphne isn't interested in mighty Apollo's advances. In fact she's so unwilling she asks her dad to turn her into a laurel tree. This sculpture is almost 400 years old and yet scores of paper thin marble leaves extending from her fingertips are still intact. It was just incredible. There was another sculpture I really liked, coincidentally also of unrequited loved. It depicted Hades, god of the underworld, with his three headed dog Cerberus at his side grasping onto his bride Persephone trying to prevent her from leaving Hell. In the myth Hades convinces Persephone to eat seven pomegranate arils and in doing so tricks her into agreeing to spend seven months of the year with him. Persephone's mother Demeter was the goddess responsible for weather and seasons, and the ancient Greeks believed winter was cold for seven months a year because she missed her daughter who was trapped as Hades consort. I tried to take a picture of that one but there were too many guards around.

Alex Seton is a Sydney-based artist born in 1977. Seton graduated from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in 1998 and has exhibited his artwork nationally and inte…

While many artists strive to glamorize, and portray our world to be better than it actually is, others simply find art in our ordinary lives and our simple bodies. Mueck is one of those artists, and is now well known for his sculptures where he portrays humans at key stages in the life cycle, from birth through middle age, to death.

When marble speaks, miracles happen. Here are 24 close-ups to some of the most famous and spectacular sculptures ever made

Hey, So we have an assignment to make a Zbrush sculpt based off of a Renaissance artist for our Adv. Figure Sculpture class.

Adoration I (ca. 1910), by Norwegian-Danish sculptor Stephan Abel Sinding.