If there was any question about the connection between the material of the self — human clay — and the stuff of sculpture, Robert Arneson’s 1988 work on paper, "Head Wedged," makes the relationship ...

For every work of art that Brie Ruais makes, she starts with her body weight in clay, bringing new meaning to the term “life-size” sculpture. The Brooklyn-based artist pushes, pulls, and scrapes the ...

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known ...

A small clay figurine from roughly 12,000 years ago is forcing archaeologists to rethink when humans began telling complex, character driven stories about themselves and the animals around them.

“The ancestral African tradition to which I belong tells me that clay is a portal. It is not inert. It breathes and it remembers,” writes Dr. Jareh Das, curator of “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, ...

Survey: Antony Gormley,” showcases the artists work inside the museum and its gardens as well as nearby rooftops ...

These creatures may be frozen in time, rendered in a painterly abstracted style that separates them from a sense of reality, but they still feel like they could come alive and spring into action at ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the ...

Christopher David White is a 40-year-old trompe l’oeil artist from Richmond, Virginia who creates whimsical handmade clay sculptures that appear to be made from things like rusted metal, dilapidated ...

In Jewish folklore, a golem is a rough-hewn, amorphous creature molded out of clay—an unformed, anthropomorphic being that is clumsy and slow. One origin story traces the golem to be the result of an ...