Sculpture
- Art and design, Asia Pacific, China, Culture, Human rights, Mao Zedong, Sculpture, US news, World news
US-based dissident artist put on trial in China over satirical Mao sculptures, says rights group
New York-based Gao Zhen was detained in 2024 during a family visit to China and then tried for ‘defaming natio…
- Art, Art and design, Culture, India, Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, Sculpture, South and Central Asia
A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours
Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascina…
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Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country …
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Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a no…
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‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece
This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an arti…
- Ashmolean Museum, Culture, India, Museums, Oxford, Sculpture, South and Central Asia, UK news, University of Oxford, World news
Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India
Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been lootedOxfo…
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In defence of New Zealand’s ‘crappiest fountain ever’ | Letter
Ainsley Dawrent responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in WellingtonToby F…
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Universities must not allow those killed in Tiananmen Square to be forgotten | Letters
Student unions should keep their memory alive, writes Peter van den DungenThe ruthless campaign by the Chinese…
- Art, Art and design, Asia Pacific, China, Hong Kong, Protest, Sculpture, Tiananmen Square protests 1989, Universities, World news
Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong…
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Cambodia celebrates return of ancient Khmer sculptures from Douglas Latchford collection
Collector’s daughter has promised to return more than 100 important sculptures acquired by her father Cambodia…
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Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm
Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist’s work, which was swept off a pier near NaoshimaExperts are …
- Architecture, Art, Art and design, Culture, India, Narendra Modi, Sculpture, South and Central Asia, World news
Modi’s bulldozing of parliament shows him as the architect of a Hindu Taliban | Anish Kapoor
Flattening the majestic Murghal-inspired buildings is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign t…
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The art of tantra: is there more to it than marathon sex and massages?
The west reduced tantra to a quest for sexual liberation and wellness. But a new show charts its darker depths…
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Bird figurine is earliest Chinese artwork ever discovered, say experts
‘Refined’ 2cm carving found in Henan dates to palaeolithic period up to 13,000 years agoA tiny figurine of a b…
- Art, Art and design, Ashmolean Museum, Culture, Education, India, Museums, Oxford, Sculpture, South and Central Asia, UK news, University of Oxford, World news
India asks Oxford museum to return ‘stolen’ bronze statue
Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar The Indian governmen…