Zarouhie Abdalian’s beautifully spare exhibition at LAXART takes a close look at the point where the chisel hits the marble. The New Orleans artist is fascinated by the moment when natural materials ...

View of “De Profundis,” a performance by Mikes Poppe (all screenshots via YouTube) An artist who chained his leg to a block of marble and attempted to free himself as a metaphor for how the ...

Renowned American poet and editor William Cullen Bryant once wrote, “A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty.” Although Bryant’s sentiments came in the mid-19th century, ...

Faces covered in white dust and chisels in hand, marble sculptors in Myanmar say the hills that have given them a livelihood for generations are disappearing, as large companies reap the rewards of ...