Sculptures

North Korea’s Kim views sculptures for memorial of soldiers who died in Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the 13th plenary meeting of the eighth central committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea, December 10, 2025, in this picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, December 11, 2025. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo

Anonymous bidder pays nearly $1.2 million for secret to decode CIA sculpture

The artwork, sculpted by Mr Jim Sanborn and dedicated by the agency in 1990, has four passages of text cut into its winding copper sheet.

‘Scary realistic’ sculpture of Trump strapped to a cross displayed in Switzerland

People take pictures of an art piece by British artist Mason Storm, depicting US President Donald Trump dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit on a cross, at a gallery in Basel on Nov 3, 2025.

The 18K gold toilet returns as a Sotheby’s headliner for $13m

Sotheby’s announced that it would offer a toilet made from 18-karat gold by artist Maurizio Cattelan for auction.

Arnaldo Pomodoro, sculptor of monumental fractured spheres, dies at 98

Arnaldo Pomodoro’s spheres began to gain worldwide attention in the 1960s.

Rodin ‘copy’ sells for $1.26 million in France

A marble sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin entitled "Le Desepsoir" (The Despair), created between 1892 and 1893.

Spain returns artwork seized during Civil War

Ernest Urtasun, Minister of Culture, gives a speech during a ceremony held by the Spanish government returning paintings to the family of Pedro Rico, former mayor of Madrid, stolen during the Spanish Civil War, at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, May 22, 2025. REUTERS/Ana Beltran

Melania Trump (the statue) vanishes in Slovenia hometown

FILE — Bronze stumps left of Melania Trump's statue in Sevnica, Slovenia, on May 16, 2025. The bronze sculpture, erected near Melania Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. (Matej Leskovsek/The New York Times)

London whale sculpture may contain 2011 tsunami debris

A pedestrian walks past the new art piece of the Canary Wharf’s permanent art collection called Whale On The Wharf, created with plastic waste by US-based artists and architects duo Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang, in Canary Wharf, in London, on April 18.

Netherlands to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

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