Sculpture

Diablitos in the Details: The Curious Tale of Mexico's Most Peculiar Pottery
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — In the rural Mexican state of Michoacán, devils, mermaids, saints, sun gods, and drunks can all be found mixing it up and having a great time. Each of these characters, and many more, inhabit the strange universe depicted in sculptures produced in the tiny town of Ocumicho. "Though sanitized into angels and last-supper scenes for tourist markets, authentic Marcelino figures are almost always obscene." These bizarre pottery tableaux feature hybrid scenes from everyday life, religious...

Paper Wizard: Mid-Century Modern's Unsung Visionary Gets His Due
By Lisa Hix — When you think of 1950s Atomic Age design, a handful of images probably pop into your mind: The Ball Clock. The Marshmallow Sofa. The Sunburst Clock. What you probably don’t realize is that the designer of these Mid-Century Modern icons spent decades living in obscurity, filling his upstate New York farmhouse with 300-some whimsical handmade paper sculptures of animals, Pre-Columbian and Southeast Asian figures, Cubist abstractions, and African masks. But in a few weeks, Irving Harper and...