Artnet

MSCHF Recasts an Ancient Greek Sculpture With Mickey Mouse

Art collective MSCHF has just revealed a rodent-themed artwork that’s been long in the making—three years, to be specific, or decades, if we’re going by copyright terms. Walt Disney and His Sons is ...
Artnet

A Headless Ancient Sculpture Just Turned Up in the Trash in Greece

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...
Newsweek

Lost Colorful Beauty of Ancient Greek Parthenon Marbles Revealed

The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...
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This elegant drawing of a Greek sculpture is 'Imperfectly perfect'

'"Paint me like one of your Greek sculptures" is something Dileep Varma could be hearing from a lot of people in the near future, and this video happens to show why. This incredible footage features ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Statues Were Not Only Painted and Dressed But Also Perfumed, Study Reveals

Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...
PBS

Art Bites 104: Ancient Greek Sculputure

Greek statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to jump-off-the-stage Hellenism We trace the steady evolution of Greek art through its statues: from stiff Archaic to balanced Golden Age to ...
CNN

‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Classical Greek ...
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A rare Greek funerary sculpture, priced north of $600,000, heads to TEFAF

There is already significant interest from a major U.S. museum, says David Aaron gallery.
Greek Reporter

The Masterful Greek Who Creates Forest Sculptures with a Chainsaw

Angelos Patsiatzis is one of the first Greek wood craftsmen to create forest sculptures with a chainsaw. He teaches this art to students.
The New Criterion

“The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the Met

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...
CNBC

UK's Sunak snubs Greek PM at last minute amid ancient sculpture dispute

Greece has long maintained that the 2,500-year-old sculptures, removed by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and currently held in the British Museum, should be returned. Mitsotakis ...
KPBS

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...