Sculpture

Interview with Antony Gormley on the Fourth Plinth project: “Why not treat everybody as a hero?”

If he gets planning permission, Antony Gormley will transform Trafalgar Square into a space for the ordinary man and woman

Hollywood technology used to examine new Herculaneum find

Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science

Hermitage Leonardo bust taken hostage in restorer's cash dispute

The kidnapped statue has now been returned to the museum

Revealed: one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake

Specialists warn that museums in the US and Europe will now have to re-examine their own sculptures

Interview with Anish Kapoor: “I haven’t done much at all”

Despite having tackled some of the most ambitious commissions in contemporary art, such as Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor says “the problems in the end are always in the studio”

Tatearchive

Tate buys Charles Saatchi’s Chapman sculptures

The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase

March 2008archive

Why the US military's proposal to dispose of Saddam Hussein’s Victory Monument is misguided

They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated

Sotheby’s backs Tate sculpture commission

Martin Creed installation opens 30th June

Lawsuitsarchive

Artist Bjarne Melgaard is suing his former backer

Sculptor says collector made too many editions

Something old, something new: Interview with Thomas Schütte on his works in London and Leeds

“In a public space people should feel better after looking at the art”

Posthumous Giacometti sculptures sold at Gagosian

Pieces represent first $10m in a probable $54m deal

Statues by the elder Calder get laser treatment

These conservation efforts removed the many years of corrosion built up on the works

Portuguese billionaire Berardo's UK shopping spree

José Berardo has bought eight large sculptures from the Cass Sculpture Foundation to display outside Parliament in Lisbon

Pakistanarchive

Starving Buddha sculpture returned to Pakistan

But leading London expert says it’s a fake

Gagosian in controversial $54m Giacometti deal

“Preposterous plan to create additional sculptures,” says rival PaceWildenstein

Collectorsarchive

Why collectors are moving from the wall to the floor: negotiating the logistics of sculptural acquisitions

Trends in real estate and the prestige factor have influenced recent preferences in the private market for sculptural works

Henry Moore Foundation vetoes plan to build replica of The Arch

An Italian-American collector had offered $1 million for the project

Italian collector steps in to save Moore’s Arch

He will also fund a replica better suited to the British climate