This rural town on the Wabash River is home to buildings by Philip Johnson and Richard Meier, as well as public sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz, Ralph Beyer and Don Gummer. ByRima Suqi, Former ...

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) enjoyed the kind of career that, from this distance in time, belongs as much to the realm Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) enjoyed the kind of career that, from this distance ...

Chaim Jacob Lipchitz born on August 22, in Druskieniki, Lithuania. He is the first of six children to Abraham Lipchitz, a young building contractor, and Rachael Leah Krinsky Receives praise for Woman ...

No one knows what the man who founded Duluth, Minn., in 1679 looked like. Archives reveal little more than that he was a French voyageur named Daniel Greysolon, bore the title of Sieur Du Luth, served ...

Ovals, spirals, opulent materials, heroic gestures: what does the modern spirit know of these essential elements of Baroque art? Inveterate individualists, we cannot see pomp and grandeur as a way of ...

Part of a circa 200-hour interview conducted by Deborah Stott at Lipchitz's studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, between 1968 and 1970. Lipchitz discusses his life and art, and describes in detail his ...

Standing isolated in the bleak industrial flats of Long Island City, across Bowery Bay from La Guardia Airport, is the Modern Art Foundry. Inside, the walls glow as roaring furnaces melt ingots of ...

At the outbreak of World War II, Varian Fry, a US journalist, volunteered to travel to Marseille to assist in the repatriation of Europe’s cultural elite, many of whom were persecuted by the Nazis.