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Quarra Stone was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek for using robotics to advance marble sculpture. Founder Jim Durham says they give artists new tools, not replacements. Quarra blends robotic milling ...
The man behind the marble is Kellen Silverthorn, who will be showing 12 of his distinctive one-block sculptures at The Quail on Friday, August 19.
The finest marble comes from a small town in Tuscany. Sitting 300 feet in air, the quarries raise tall like snow-drunk mountains. Men work in tune, following their operator, conducting the ...
In the final step, casters knock off the outer clay layer after the metal cools, revealing the sculpture: a modern-day bronze.
But slow times were on the horizon. World War II slowed the “nonessential” marble industry. In late 1941 the Yule Marble quarry closed and the tracks of the Crystal River and San Juan Railroad were ...
In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some of the world’s best-known artists to decorate the second-story niches ...
A ccording to an essay penned by a University of Iowa professor, seeing white-marble sculpture “continues to influence white supremacist ideas,” and it’s a shame that this is “often ignored.
Discover Pablo Atchugarry's contemporary Carrara marble sculpture, on view at Trajan's Forum in Rome, amid the ancient ruins.