Take Vaporetto Number 2 from St Mark's Square to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and, five minutes later, mass tourism has vanished. The largely empty island is dominated by Andrea Palladio's ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- When Toronto's Pearson International Airport offered sculptor Jaume Plensa an opportunity to create a work of art for its new airport terminal, he accepted the offer. Yet to the ...

Art lovers have a prime chance to get to know the work of Catalan artist Jaume Plensa this summer, in two exhibitions in two distinctive European holiday destinations. First, head up to Yorkshire ...

One of the world’s foremost living sculptors, Spanish artist Jaume Plensa (b. 1955) has created large-scale artworks related to the human figure for public places around the globe. This exhibition, ...

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I cover fine art, music, fashion, technology, and culture. In the Chelsea gallery’s main room, seven monumental, slightly elongated, impossibly smooth female heads carved out of the same salvaged ...

Jaume Plensa has no concerns about appearing unfashionable when it comes to his view of what art is really all about. “I think beauty is the soul of art,” he says, unequivocally. “Art has this ...

Jaume Plensa is a contemporary Spanish artist best known for his depictions of the human face through sculpture and innovative technology. His commission Crown Fountain (2004), a public installation ...

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Jaume Plensa visited his giant heads the other day. He arrived at a corner of Madison Street and Michigan Avenue, found a park bench and reflected. His giant heads appeared to be doing fine, he said.