In 2009, John and Mary Pappajohn, a Des Moines venture capitalist and his wife, provided funding for and donated more than 30 sculptures to the Des Moines Art Center. Their donation transformed an ...
From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
On a beach on Japan’s Naoshima Island, you’ll find an unexpected sight: an enormous yellow pumpkin adorned with black spots. The sculpture has become the icon of this modern art-focused island, which ...