The Crocker Art Museum is featuring part of its permanent collection right now in Modern Menagerie an exhibition of sculptures by Loet Vanderveen, a California artist originally from the Netherlands.

As part of the second annual Rodeo Drive Celebrates Fashion event, French contemporary artist Richard Orlinski made his L.A. debut with colorful animal sculptures crafted from resin. The pieces — ...

New York artist Tom Otterness was in San Jose this week for the reinstallation of “Another World,” the collection of bronze sculptures he made to adorn the entrance plaza at Happy Hollow Park & Zoo.

Chen Wenling, “Riding to Happiness (with 56 little pigs)” (2006) fiberglass, Denver Art Museum (all image by the author for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) As far back as ancient Sumer and ...

Back in March, news broke that the Parks Department had begun assembling a plan to relocate some of the city's beloved animal sculptures when their playgrounds are under construction. Today, they ...

Giant animal sculptures have infiltrated the Philadelphia Zoo, and the larger-than-life statues of birds, bugs and big cats are designed to teach visitors about conservation. Wildlife Rescue by Little ...

An aardvark is joined by a frog, a camel, an elephant, and two dolphins at the new “Home for Retired Playground Animals” in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. (Courtesy NYC Parks) Perhaps Stern’s most ...

The works are made completely by hand and take up to three months to create. — -- Japanese artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates stunning lifelike sculptures of wild animals using only old newspapers ...

I recently received a copy of Dr. Keri Cronin's new book called Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914. I honestly know just about nothing about this topic, so I immediately ...

Cups and mugs are some of the best things you can ever get as a gift for someone: it doesn’t require a huge investment, whether financially or emotionally, it’s both beautiful and practical, and, most ...

PEORIA — In the art world, Monte de Gallo wants to be the next big thing. Really big. His massive metal animal sculptures have been popping up in Peoria. As the mammoth menagerie keeps expanding, ...